1. Golden State Warriors
Starters – Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, Zaza Pachulia
Bench – Shaun Livingston, Ian Clark, Andre Iguodala, David West, Anderson Varejao
Who else could it be?
The starting 5 may rank among one of the best in NBA history by season’s end, and they will probably only play around 30 minutes a game, if that.
Shaun Livingston is taller than 90 percent of the backup PGs in the league, so he’ll continue to post up and hit fadeaway jumpshots day and night.
Ian Clark is a sniper and will be feasting off the attention Curry, Thompson, Durant, and/or Iguodala will be drawing.
Iguodala himself is quite arguably the best bench player in the NBA (go ahead, let me have it in the comments section), and has shown no signs of slowing down.
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David West and Andy Goony Varejao round out the bench unit to run pick and roll with whatever point guard or forward is running the show; or kick out to the Warrior’s surplus of deadly 3PT shooters.
They’re just too dang deep.