Anybody want to spend a few minutes imagining Anthony Davis trying to guard Magic Johnson?
Great! Me too.
Here's how we make that happen: Organize NBA players past and present by last name, assign them to teams and pick the top squads with common surnames. After that, it's simple. Just seed the teams and run through a hypothetical (mostly serious) tournament until the finals when, hopefully, Magic and The Brow lead the Johnson and Davis clans into battle.
The rules are pretty simple. First, you need five players with the same last name to participate. This isn't an issue for the Williamses, who have seen 71 of their ilk play a game in the NBA.
It's a real bummer for the Malones, though, because Karl and Moses are probably the top twosome available...except they can't fill out a full team because the only other Malone to play in the league was Jeff. They're still one Malone short if we charitably give them Matt Maloney.
We're not considering depth here, either. To keep it clean, we'll take only five players from each name group, fitting them into actual positions as best we can.
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