NBA Team of the Decade

PG Stephen Curry
SG James Harden
SF LeBron James
PF Kevin Durant
C Anthony Davis

Notes:
The toughest position to choose was point guard. Russell Westbrook was very close. He does everything on the court and gives maximum effort. He won an MVP and probably deserved at least one more. Curry has two MVPs, although perhaps Westbrook deserved the on of them. Curry also had a good bit more team success, but he also had better players around him on the whole. Curry takes it because he changed the game in way Westbrook didn't.

Harden has also changed the game. His ability to get to the line and his unashamed propensity to fire threes isn't the most artistically pleasing style of ball, but it is the most efficient. Kobe was a top 5 player the first three years of the decade, but then faded due to injury and age.

There is no question the LeBron makes this list. If he's not int he starting lineup on your All-Decade team, then you don't know basketball. Since 2011, he has been the best player in the league. His teams made eight NBA Finals during the decade and won three championships. He was the best player on all eight teams without question.

Whether Durant or LeBron is listed as the power forward doesn't really matter. Durant is a scoring machine whose handles, passing, and defense all improved throughout the decade. A four-time scoring champ and MVP, he won two Finals MVPs in his four Finals appearances.

The game has moved away from the center position. If I was going with simply the best five, Westbrook would make the team. But for the sake of tradition, we'll pick a big man. believe r not, Dwight Howard was a top ten player during the first four years of the decade, but Davis has been one since 2015. Davis doesn't have playoff success of the other four guys on the team, but his talent and individual performance on both sides of the ball makes him the clear choice as a big man on this squad.