Split T wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:47 pm
Side note: Is any other franchise as loaded at guard as we are? Specifically pg? If you got specific with positions, we’d have Jason Kidd as our 4th string pg in franchise history. Then you still have Marbury, Dragic, IT, Rubio. I might do some research and be back with an interesting (at least to me
) post.
Ok here we go. I went back and counted every all-nba selection given to a pg(based on their basketball-reference position) and noted which franchise they played for. I only went back to the merger, so apologies to Jerry West, Walt Frazier, Oscar Robertson, Bob Cousy and the teams they played for as they are not counted in here.
In order of total all-nba selections by a pg:
1. Phoenix - 17
2. Jazz - 14
3. Warriors, Lakers, Sonics - 10
6. Thunder - 9
7. Pistons - 8
8. Clippers, Blazers - 6
10. Celtics, Nets, Wizards - 5
Yes the Sonics/Thunder would be first at 19 if you counted them together. Gary Payton/Russell Westbrook sure got a lot of all-nba selections.
In order of 1st Team All-NBA selections:
1. Lakers - 9(All Magic)
2. Suns - 8
3. Warriors - 4
4. Sonics, Pistons, Clippers - 3
7. Jazz, Thunder, Nets, Magic - 2
In order of # of players to be named all-nba:
1. Suns - 8
2. Celtics - 5
3. Wizards, Nets, Jazz - 3
4. Warriors, Sonics, Pistons, Clippers, Thunder, 76ers, Hornets -2
In order of # of players to be named 1st Team:
1. Suns - 4
2. Sonics - 2
3. Warriors, Lakers, Jazz, Pistons, Clippers, Blazers, Thunder, 76ers, Nets, Heat, Hornets, Magic, Bulls - 1
The suns all-nba pg’s:
Nash, Kidd, D. Johnson, Westphal all got 1st team
K. Johnson, Paul, Marbury, Dragic got 2nd/3rd team
Westphal had 3 1st team selections, but was only listed as a pg during the 1st one.
Disclaimer - I caught one error on the site I used to calculate this(Had Dragic’s 13-14 3rd team finish listed as for the Heat) so there might be other errors I didn’t catch.
If I went back further I imagine Lakers would dominate this as Jerry West adds 10 1st team all-nba selections.