This is my first time running a basketball theme, and I've always loved this theme in baseball.

Select an exclusive state and compile your roster strictly from players born there.

Going to separate California and New York into separate conferences. So there will be a team using only Eastern Conference seasons of players, and Western Conference players for each of these state.

I'm working on putting together some combos of countries so we may be able to utilize some of the European players. Africa would have Olajuwon, Mutombo, and Steve Nash for starters!

League Rules:

• $50 million salary cap
• Any season in the database. Maybe even 2019-20 players depending on when the NBA season officially ends.
• NO: clones, trades, waiver wire, or minor league
• Divisions aligned by region.
• Use arena located in your state. If one is not available use home arena of any player on your roster.

Sign up is first come, first serve basis.

Use link for eligible players:

https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/birthplaces.fcgi

Available teams w/key players in bold

ALABAMA & MISSISSIPPI
Charles Barkley, Ben Wallace, Robert Horry, Chuck Person, Jeff Malone, George McGinnis, Gerald Wallace, Theo Ratliff, Derrick Coleman, Eric Bledsoe, DeMarcus Cousins, Chet Walker, Antonio McDyess, Sam Lacey, Erick Dampier, Lindsey Hunter, Derrick McKey, Al Jefferson, Danny Manning, Spencer Haywood, Monta Ellis, Purvis Short, Othella Harrington, Travis Outlaw, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Slick Watts, Rodney Hood

ARIZONA, COLORADO, NEVADA, NEW MEXICO, UTAH, WYOMING
Sean Elliott, Jerryd Bayless, Marvin Bagley, Chauncey Billups, Chuck Williams, Jason Smith, Greg Anthony, Zach Collins, Bill Bridges, Tom Chambers, Byron Scott, James Johnson

ARKANSAS & MISSOURI
Scottie Pippen, Derek Fisher, Joe Johnson, Paul Silas, Michael Cage, Glen Rice, Mike Conley, Corliss Williamson, Sidney Moncrief, Fat Lever, Joe Barry Carroll, Nat Clifton, Jo Jo White, David Lee, Anthony Peeler, Bill Bradley, Jayson Tatum, Larry Hughes, Bradley Beal, Ed Macauley

CALIFORNIA (Eastern Conference seasons)
CALIFORNIA (Western Conference seasons)
Jason Kidd, Reggie Miller, Paul Pierce, Gary Payton, Andre Miller, Ray Allen, Kyle Korver, Richard Jefferson, Tyson Chandler, Dennis Johnson, Russell Westbrook, Baron Davis, Paul George, Damian Lillard, Klay Thompson, Kawhi Leonard, Jeremy Lin, Bill Walton

FLORIDA
Vince Carter, Artis Gilmore, Otis Thorpe, Tree Rollins, Trevor Ariza, David Robinson, Mitch Richmond, Eddie Jones, Tracy McGrady, Anthony Mason, Udonis Haslem, Vernon Maxwell, Amar'e Stoudemire, Will Perdue, Vin Baker, Darryl Dawkins, Gilbert Arenas

GEORGIA
Dwight Howard, Walt Frazier, Dale Ellis, Derek Harper, Horace Grant, World B Free, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Dale Davis, Sam Mitchell, Sedale Threatt, Gerald Wilkins

ILLINOIS
Dan Issel, Juwan Howard, Eddie Johnson, Terry Cummings, Shawn Marion, Andre Iguodala, Jack Sikma, Michael Finley, Maurice Cheeks, Hersey Hawkins, Isiah Thomas (Pistons), Kendall Gill, Mark Aguirre, Tim Hardaway, Doc Rivers, Derrick Rose

INDIANA
Larry Bird, Shawn Kemp, Louie Dampier, Zach Randolph, Brad Miller, Glenn Robinson, Eric Gordon, Gordon Hayward, Scott Skiles

KANSAS, NEBRASKA NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA, & OKLAHOMA
Alvan Adams, Scott Wedman, Bob Boozer, Mike Miller, Ron Boone, Antoine Carr, John Starks, Wayman Tisdale, Mark Price, Blake Griffin

KENTUCKY
Wes Unseld, Rajon Rondo, Allan Houston, Cliff Hagan, Dave Cowens, Darrell Griffith, Rex Chapman, Felton Spencer, Frank Ramsey, Arnie Risen, Derek Anderson

LOUISIANA
Robert Parish, Karl Malone, Elvin Hayes, Clyde Drexler, Antawn Jamison, Avery Johnson, Rashard Lewis, Joe Dumars, Paul Millsap, Bill Russell, Bob Pettit, Willis Reed, Orlando Woolridge, Hot Rod Williams, Don Chaney

MARYLAND, DELAWARE, & DC
Adrian Dantley, Thurl Bailey, Dave Bing, Kevin Durant, Elgin Baylor, Sherman Douglas, Walt Williams, Blue Edwards, Austin Carr, Sam Cassell, Rudy Gay, Jeff Green, Muggsy Bogues, Jarrett Jack, David Wingate, Dennis Scott, Michael Beasley, Steve Francis, Ty Lawson, Walt Hazzard

MASSACHUSETTS, MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, CONNECTICUT, & RHODE ISLAND
Bill Laimbeer, Dana Barros, Vinny Del Negro, Travis Best, Nerlens Noel, Rick Mahorn, Calvin Murphy, Marcus Camby, Chris Dudley

MICHIGAN
Magic Johnson, George Gervin, Don Nelson, PJ Brown, Shane Battier, Dan Majerle, Steve Smith, Jalen Rose, Chris Webber, Rudy Tomjanovich, Kenyon Martin, BJ Armstrong, Terry Mills, Draymond Green

MINNESOTA, IOWA, & WISCONSIN
Kevin McHale, Mark Olberding, Kris Humphries, Terry Porter, Devin Harris, Fred Brown, Latrell Sprewell, Caron Butler, Nick Van Exel, Nick Collison, Kirk Hinrich, Harrison Barnes, John Koncak, Raef LaFrentz

NEW JERSEY
Shaquille O'Neal, David West, Rick Barry, Mike Bibby, Al Harrington, JR Smith, Dennis Rodman, Tim Thomas, Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Bynum, Chris Ford, Al Attles, Kelly Tripucka, Chris Gatling

NEW YORK (Eastern Conference seasons)
NEW YORK (Western Conference seasons)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Julius Erving, Chris Mullin, Bob Lanier, Bob Cousy, Tiny Archibald, Dolph Schayes, Mark Jackson, Cliff Robinson, Sam Perkins, Carmelo Anthony, Rod Strickland, Lenny Wilkens, Elton Brand, Lamar Odom, Bernard King, Kenny Anderson

NORTH/SOUTH CAROLINA
Buck Williams, Walt Bellamy, Walter Davis, Chris Paul, Jerry Stackhouse, Sleepy Floyd, Bobby Jones, John Lucas, James Worthy, Lou Hudson, Sam Jones, Bob McAdoo, Nate McMillan, ML Carr, Henry Bibby, David Thompson, John Wall, Brad Daugherty, Zion Williamson, Kevin Garnett, Alex English, Tyrone Corbin, Jermaine O'Neal, Raymond Felton, Larry Nance Sr, Xavier McDaniel, Anthony Johnson, Michael Dickerson, Jayson Williams, Willie Anderson, Ja Morant

OHIO
Charles Oakley, John Havlicek, LeBron James, Herb Williams, Johnny Green, Ron Harper, Nate Thurmond, Jerry Lucas, Alvin Robertson, Steph Curry, Gus Johnson, Michael Redd

PENNSYLVANIA
Kobe Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain, Rasheed Wallace, Maurice Lucas, Earl Monroe, Kyle Lowry, Richard Hamilton

TENNESSEE
Oscar Robertson, Lou Williams, Bailey Howell, JJ Redick, Bingo Smith, Corey Brewer, Lorenzen Wright, Clyde Lee, Anfernee Hardaway, Vincent Askew, Popeye Jones, Ron Mercer

TEXAS
Grant Hill, LaMarcus Aldridge, Mike Dunleavy, Ricky Pierce, Alton Lister, David Wesley, Bo Outlaw, Chris Bosh, Zelmo Beaty, Mookie Blaylock, DeAndre Jordan, Craig Ehlo, Stephen Jackson, CJ Miles, Spud Webb, Kendrick Perkins, Greg Ostertag, KC Jones, Jimmy Butler, Julius Randle, Emeka Okafor, Larry Johnson

VIRGINIA & WEST VIRGINIA
Moses Malone, Johnny Newman, Jerome Kersey, Mark West, Dell Curry, Joe Smith, Allen Iverson, Gerald Henderson, Bimbo Coles, Bob Dandridge, Alonzo Mourning, Rory Sparrow, JR Reid, Paul Pressey, Earl Lloyd, Ralph Sampson, Hal Greer, Jerry West, Deron Williams, Jason Williams, Freddie Lewis, OJ Mayo, Rod Thorn

WASHINGTON, OREGON, IDAHO, MONTANA, ALASKA, & HAWAII
John Stockton, Danny Ainge, AC Green, Damon Stoudamire, Brandon Roy, Terrell Brandon, Jason Terry, Jamal Crawford, James Edwards, Marvin Williams, Doug Christie, Rodney Stuckey, Aaron Brooks, Nate Robinson, Martell Webster, Zach LaVine, Isaiah Thomas (Washington Huskies), Luke Ridnour, Phil Jackson

COUNTRIES

AFRICA
Hakeem Olajuwon, Dikembe Mutombo, Steve Nash, Manute Bol, Joel Embiid, Pascal Siakam, Emmanuel Mudiay, Michael Olowokandi, Serge Ibaka, Tacko Fall, Luol Deng

AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, CANADA, CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, & TAIWAN
Yao Ming, Kyrie Irving, Ben Simmons, Andrew Bogut, Patty Mills, Luc Longley, Joe Ingles, Steven Adams, Aron Baynes, Andrei Kirilenko, Rick Fox, Bill Wennington, Andrew Wiggins, RJ Barrett, Tristan Thompson

CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, & MEXICO
Patrick Ewing, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobli, Nene Hilario, Leandro Barbosa, Mychal Thompson, Deandre Ayton, Al Horford, Olden Polynice, Rolando Blackman, Carlos Arroyo

EUROPE - FRANCE, GERMANY, SPAIN, ITALY, AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, DENMARK, FINLAND, ICELAND, IRELAND, LUXEMBOURG, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, POLAND, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, UK
Dirk Nowitzki, Dominique Wilkins, Tony Parker, Detlef Schrempf, Kiki Vandeweghe, Rudy Gobert, Boris Diaw, Carlos Boozer, Shawn Bradley, Uwe Blab, Marco Belinelli, Reggie Jackson, Danilo Gallinari, Andrea Bargnani, James Donaldson, Ben Gordon, Enes Kanter, Rick Smits

EUROPE II - GREECE, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, BULGARIA, CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, ESTONIA, GEORGIA, HUNGARY, ISRAEL, LATVIA, LEBANON, LITHUANIA, MONTENEGRO, MACEDONIA, ROMANIA, SERBIA, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, TURKEY, UKRAINE
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Vlade Divac, Darko Milicic, Nikola Jokic, Toni Kukoc, Peja Stojakovic, Dario Saric, Drazen Petrovic, Dino Radja, Vladimir Radmanovic, Bojan Bogdanovic, Jusuf Nurkic, Kristaps Porzingis, Andris Biedrins, Steve Kerr, Rony Seikaly, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Arvydas Sabonis, Jonas Valanciunas, Nikola Mirotic, Gheorghe Muresan, Goran Dragic, Luka Doncic, Hedo Tukoglu, Mehmet Okur, Vitaly Potapenko

Committed Owners

1) GreasyTony - Africa
2) pexetera - North/South Carolina
3) PistonHondo - Florida
4) albiband0 - Europe
5) gerryred - Ohio
6) soxyank12 - New England
7) woelke - Illinois
8) slashtc - Pennsylvania
9) dBKC - California (Western Conference)
10) quaker128 - New Jersey
11) cea8010 - Tennessee
12) slashtc - New York (Eastern Conference)
13) beloud - Virginia/West Virginia
14) beloud - DC/Delaware/Maryland
15) buffalo_rob - Texas
16) gerryred - Europe II
17)
18) robusk - Alabama/Mississippi
19) bds9992 - Georgia
20) samuelyork93 - Louisiana
21) Scottedward - Arkansas-Missouri
22) Scottedward - Michigan
23) reddooba - Indiana
24) GreasyTony - ?

I'll take a team if you get enough interest.

I think you're going to have to combine states though, otherwise hard to fill 24 owners as the player pool gets smaller and smaller after the first 10 or 15 states. New England would be the 6 states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut (at least that would be 95 players). and probably good idea to add groups of countries too, maybe by continent

I'll play!

Posted by pexetera on 5/13/2020 8:36:00 PM (view original):
I think you're going to have to combine states though, otherwise hard to fill 24 owners as the player pool gets smaller and smaller after the first 10 or 15 states. New England would be the 6 states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut (at least that would be 95 players). and probably good idea to add groups of countries too, maybe by continent

Yeah that's a good idea. Ended up having to do that in baseball to compete with the big states.

The New England combo makes sense.

Also Maryland/DC even though Maryland has 73 players, it's more quantity over quality!

Nice idea! I am in!

Suggesting some ideas for combo countries:

France / Belgium / Netherlands: Tony Parker, Swen Nater, Rik Smits, Nicolas Batum, Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier, Boris Diaw….

Eastern Europe (Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland...): Arvydas Sabonis, Jonas Valanciunas, Sarunas Marciulonis, Ilgauskas, Andrei Kirilenko, Kristaps Porzingis, Tomas Satoransky, Marcin Gortat..

Europe - Southern (Spain, Italy, Romania, Greece): Pau and Marc Gasol, Jose Calderon, Wally Szczerbiack, Ricky Rubio, Danilo Gallinari, Marco Belinelli, Reggie Jackson, Gheorghe Muresan, Andrea Bargnani, Giannis Antetokunmpo

Ex Yugoslavia Countries (Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia...): Peja Stojakovic, Toni Kukoc, Vlade Divac, Drazen Petrovicm Dino Radja, Luka Doncic, Goran Dragic, Bojan and Bogdan Bogdanovic...

Europe - remaining countries (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavian countries...): Dirk Nowitzki, Ben Gordon, James Donaldson, Denis Schroeder, Jonas Jerebko, Lauri Markkanen, Clint Capela, Enes Kanter, Nikola Vucevic, Kiki Vandeweghe, Detlef Schrempf

Caribbean and Central America (Bahamas, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Panama...): Tim Duncan, Patrick Ewing, Al Horford, Francisco Garcia, Buddy Hield, DeAndre Ayton, Mychal Thompson, Samuel Dalembert, Raja Bell, Rolando Blackman, JJ Barea..

South America (Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela...): Manu Ginobili, Luis Scola, Nene, Pablo Prigioni, Fabricio Oberto, Nene, Leandro Barbosa, Anderso Varejao, Greivis Vazquez...

Asia (Turkey, Israel, all Asian countries): Hedo Turkoglu, Ersan Ilyasova, Mehmet Okur, Yao Ming, Omri Casspi, Tom Meschery..

Australia and New Zealand: Ben Simmons, Steven Adams, Andre Bogut, Kyrie Irving, Joe Ingles, Patty Mills, Aaron Baynes..

Africa: Dikembe Mutombo, Steve Nash, Hakeem Olajuwon, Serge Ibaka, Emanuel Mudiay, Luol Deng, Gorgui Dieng, Manute Bol...

Posted by albiband0 on 5/14/2020 1:52:00 AM (view original):
Nice idea! I am in!

Suggesting some ideas for combo countries:

France / Belgium / Netherlands: Tony Parker, Swen Nater, Rik Smits, Nicolas Batum, Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier, Boris Diaw….

Eastern Europe (Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland...): Arvydas Sabonis, Jonas Valanciunas, Sarunas Marciulonis, Ilgauskas, Andrei Kirilenko, Kristaps Porzingis, Tomas Satoransky, Marcin Gortat..

Europe - Southern (Spain, Italy, Romania, Greece): Pau and Marc Gasol, Jose Calderon, Wally Szczerbiack, Ricky Rubio, Danilo Gallinari, Marco Belinelli, Reggie Jackson, Gheorghe Muresan, Andrea Bargnani, Giannis Antetokunmpo

Ex Yugoslavia Countries (Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia...): Peja Stojakovic, Toni Kukoc, Vlade Divac, Drazen Petrovicm Dino Radja, Luka Doncic, Goran Dragic, Bojan and Bogdan Bogdanovic...

Europe - remaining countries (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavian countries...): Dirk Nowitzki, Ben Gordon, James Donaldson, Denis Schroeder, Jonas Jerebko, Lauri Markkanen, Clint Capela, Enes Kanter, Nikola Vucevic, Kiki Vandeweghe, Detlef Schrempf

Caribbean and Central America (Bahamas, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Panama...): Tim Duncan, Patrick Ewing, Al Horford, Francisco Garcia, Buddy Hield, DeAndre Ayton, Mychal Thompson, Samuel Dalembert, Raja Bell, Rolando Blackman, JJ Barea..

South America (Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela...): Manu Ginobili, Luis Scola, Nene, Pablo Prigioni, Fabricio Oberto, Nene, Leandro Barbosa, Anderso Varejao, Greivis Vazquez...

Asia (Turkey, Israel, all Asian countries): Hedo Turkoglu, Ersan Ilyasova, Mehmet Okur, Yao Ming, Omri Casspi, Tom Meschery..

Australia and New Zealand: Ben Simmons, Steven Adams, Andre Bogut, Kyrie Irving, Joe Ingles, Patty Mills, Aaron Baynes..

Africa: Dikembe Mutombo, Steve Nash, Hakeem Olajuwon, Serge Ibaka, Emanuel Mudiay, Luol Deng, Gorgui Dieng, Manute Bol...

Thanks for doing all this research! I was actually thinking about making bigger combos like France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, and UK. Dominique Wilkins was born in France!

Central/South America, Caribbean countries, and Mexico would be one team.

Too bad Canada doesn't have enough to compete.

Africa would lead the league in blocked shots!

OHIO

Posted by GreasyTony on 5/14/2020 2:48:00 AM (view original):

Posted by albiband0 on 5/14/2020 1:52:00 AM (view original):
Nice idea! I am in!

Suggesting some ideas for combo countries:

France / Belgium / Netherlands: Tony Parker, Swen Nater, Rik Smits, Nicolas Batum, Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier, Boris Diaw….

Eastern Europe (Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland...): Arvydas Sabonis, Jonas Valanciunas, Sarunas Marciulonis, Ilgauskas, Andrei Kirilenko, Kristaps Porzingis, Tomas Satoransky, Marcin Gortat..

Europe - Southern (Spain, Italy, Romania, Greece): Pau and Marc Gasol, Jose Calderon, Wally Szczerbiack, Ricky Rubio, Danilo Gallinari, Marco Belinelli, Reggie Jackson, Gheorghe Muresan, Andrea Bargnani, Giannis Antetokunmpo

Ex Yugoslavia Countries (Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia...): Peja Stojakovic, Toni Kukoc, Vlade Divac, Drazen Petrovicm Dino Radja, Luka Doncic, Goran Dragic, Bojan and Bogdan Bogdanovic...

Europe - remaining countries (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavian countries...): Dirk Nowitzki, Ben Gordon, James Donaldson, Denis Schroeder, Jonas Jerebko, Lauri Markkanen, Clint Capela, Enes Kanter, Nikola Vucevic, Kiki Vandeweghe, Detlef Schrempf

Caribbean and Central America (Bahamas, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Panama...): Tim Duncan, Patrick Ewing, Al Horford, Francisco Garcia, Buddy Hield, DeAndre Ayton, Mychal Thompson, Samuel Dalembert, Raja Bell, Rolando Blackman, JJ Barea..

South America (Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela...): Manu Ginobili, Luis Scola, Nene, Pablo Prigioni, Fabricio Oberto, Nene, Leandro Barbosa, Anderso Varejao, Greivis Vazquez...

Asia (Turkey, Israel, all Asian countries): Hedo Turkoglu, Ersan Ilyasova, Mehmet Okur, Yao Ming, Omri Casspi, Tom Meschery..

Australia and New Zealand: Ben Simmons, Steven Adams, Andre Bogut, Kyrie Irving, Joe Ingles, Patty Mills, Aaron Baynes..

Africa: Dikembe Mutombo, Steve Nash, Hakeem Olajuwon, Serge Ibaka, Emanuel Mudiay, Luol Deng, Gorgui Dieng, Manute Bol...

Thanks for doing all this research! I was actually thinking about making bigger combos like France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, and UK. Dominique Wilkins was born in France!

Central/South America, Caribbean countries, and Mexico would be one team.

Too bad Canada doesn't have enough to compete.

Africa would lead the league in blocked shots!

Since Asia has not so many players, Canada can be put together with Asia to create a single team - and in case Turky can be moved back together with a mix of European countries.

And being italian, I would like to select the Europe team (whatever selection of countries Italy will be part of)

Since South Carolina only has 44 players by itself, If you combine South and North Carolina.... I'll take the Carolina's.

Since I went to Central High School in Springfield Ma with Travis Best (he was a year behind me and I'll never forget the game he set the all time record with 83 personal points in a game vs Putnam High!) I'll go ahead and reserve my home state!

I’ll take NY please