Pick any team to go to the NBA Finals since 1984. You then can pick 1 player from every team they faced in the playoffs and including the Finals. So you can pick a team that lost the Finals and still pick a player from the team they lost to (I'm doing this to increase the amount of teams you can choose  from 28 to 56). No duplicate teams can be selected. Once a Finals team is taken they come off the board.Once you have picked the Finals team you want you begin taking prisoners and creating your player pool. IE....

2012 OKC Thunder
You choose the 2012 Oklahoma City (They faced the Mavericks, Lakers, Spurs, and Heat)</span>
Cut Nazr Mohammed for      Jason Kidd(Dallas)
Cut R. Jackson for                LeBron James(Heat)
Cut R. Westbrook for               Tim Duncan(Spurs)
Cut N. Collison for                Kobe Bryant(Lakers)

This will Give you a player pool of:
Kidd, Fisher, Bryant, Harden, Sefolosha, D. Cook, R. Ivey, James, Durant, Ibaka, Duncan, and Perkins.

Now that you have your pool of players you can use any of their seasons.

Special Note
Because the league is based on who teams faced in the playoffs, all eligible players must have been on the playoff roster. Use the playoff rosters on basketballreference, see link below. Use those 12 players as your basis, before you start taking prisoners and changing player years.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/

You have a $52 million cap.
No WW, Clones, or Rookies.

The OKC team could look like this:

06-07 Jason Kidd*
11-12 Derek Fisher
03-04 Kobe Bryant*
11-12 James Harden
08-09 Thabo Sefolosha
09-10 Deaquan Cook
09-10 Royal Ivey
06-07 LeBron James*
11-12 Kevin Durant
10-11 Serge Ibaka
11-12 Tim Duncan*
04-05 Kendrick Perkins

*Prisoners

I will pick my team 10th.

For those who don't know. Follow this link to see past Finals team and rosters.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/

1) 95-96 Chicago Bulls- felonius
2) 96-97 Chicago Bulls- mark102857
3) 86-87 Boston Celtics- logain
4) 03-04 L.A. Lakers-malone9975
5) 87-88 Detroit Pistons- malone9975
6) 97-98 Utah Jazz- badja
7) 07-08 L.A. Lakers- Calcutta
8) 94-95 Houston Rocketss- ashamael
9) 90-91 Chicago Bulls- garyman
10) 94-95 Orlando Magic-Onslaught
11) 09-10 Boston Celtics- Onslaught
12) 96-97 Utah Jazz- ben_handon58
13) 06-07 Cleveland Cavs- theyard2
14) 07-08 Boston Celtics- longtallbrad
15) 10-11 Dallas Mavericks- dh555
16) 84-85 L.A. Lakers- dspahlinger
17) 84-85 Boston Celtics- jcred
18) 85-86 Boston Celtics- colonels19
19) 11-12 Miami Heat- Steelers821
20) 10-11 Miami Heat- nazi_killer
21) 05-06 Dallas Mavericks- crusader81
22) 98-99 S.A. Spurs- sweg
23) 89-90 Portland Trailblazers-felonius
24) 06-07 S.A. Spurs-calcutta

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90-91 Bulls for now

Are teams exclusive? I mean if felonius chooses 90-91 Bulls, would I be able to have the 96-97 Bulls? If we can, then I want in with those 96-97 Bulls. (for now-like felonius said)

very interested.

Entire franchises are not exclusive. So yes, you can have the 96-97 Bulls. Welcome. And Ash I would love to have you be a part of this league as well.

Posted by ashamael on 6/24/2012 3:46:00 PM (view original):
very interested.

Should I reserve you a spot until you can get back to me with a team?

80-81 Boston Celtics

87-88 Detroit Pistons as well if it is cool

don't want to commit just yet.

Posted by malone9975 on 6/24/2012 6:11:00 PM (view original):
80-81 Boston Celtics

Sorry, but it needs to be a team on or after 1984. Reason being is #1 seeds got a bye in the 1st round prior to 1984. That would only give you 3 prisoners.