Hypothetical: Team Adidas vs. Team Nike

[Hornacek]

We've seen the "teamwork" Adidas commerical, as well as the "Second Coming" Nike commercials. Who would win in a hypothetical 5 on 5 game?

Second Coming:

Amare
JO
LeBron
Kobe
Nash

Sheed
Parker
Paul
Pierce
Marion


Before you run off and say the Nike team, check out this stacked Adidas team:

Duncan
Garnett
tMac
Arenas
Billups

and Dwight Howard.


What have you?

I personally am leaning towards team Adidas; great balance of defense/offense, backcourt/frontcourt, and just a better "team", it seems. Thoughts?

[Popinjay]

I think Nash > Billups and that is what will decide it... although KG > JO so maybe not. Actually I like Adidas better because every guy is a great passer not just great and getting and making his own shot.

[kidcolin]

it takes 5, baby

[xorbie]

Betting against Nash, Kobe and LeBron seems like a bad idea, but team Adidas does have a really good match up with Billups against Nash and then no big guy for team Nike that can really hang with any of the many Adidas bigs.

[Droogie]

Second coming with these 5:
Nash; Kobe; LeBron; Marion; Sheed

Would be able to outplay the backcourt and slow down the frontcourt of...

Billups; Arenas; tMac; KG; Duncan

... enough to win imo.

[kidcolin]

Adidas team plays a frontline of Howard at the 5, Duncan at the 4, and KG at the 3. Billups and T-Mac fill out the backcourt. Arenas blogs about it. Ship it.

[dlk9s]

Team L.A. Gear FTW.

[ThaSaltCracka]

BK's FTW

[FlyWf]

Team Nike would play ridiculously small and absolutely destroy team Adidas. Imagine an Amare-Lebron-Pierce-Kobe-Nash team fastbreaking all game? They'd score like 190 points.

[PITTM]

Saying Billups is better than Arenas makes me sad.