We’re knocking on the door of the 2020 decade beginning, which means two things. 1) We’re old. 2) We need to wrap up this past decade of basketball in the NBA. Here at The Athletic, I’ve been tasked with coming up with the All-Decade Team for the NBA. Doing that is no easy feat. Trying not to get wrapped up in the recency bias of the conversation and remembering what happened all those years before 3-pointers were all the rage can be difficult to do. Those years in the early part of the decade count just as much as the years in the latter part of the decade.
Because of position-less basketball, we’re using some loopholes to avoid the “two guards, two forwards, and a center” format so many All-Decade or All-NBA or Best Starting Five types of conversations usually go. This era gave way to just throwing your best five players on the floor, even if it meant nobody over 6-foot-6 was available.
So we’re going to throw out a lead…
