Matching last names of U.S. presidents with last names of NBA players (current or former), give me your all-time, All NBA Presidential first team.

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David Aldridge:

Magic Johnson

Earl Monroe

Paul Pierce

Horace Grant

Elvin Hayes

Steve Aschburner: Give me Magic Johnson, Earl Monroe, Paul Pierce, Vince Carter and Elvin Hayes and I’ll play one-in, four-out all night long. But I’m hoping one of these elections that we put a President Jordan in the White House.

Fran Blinebury:

Magic Johnson

Earl Monroe

Luke Jackson

Elvin Hayes

Marques Johnson

Reserves: Dennis Johnson, Paul Pierce, Vince Carter

Scott Howard-Cooper: Magic Johnson, Elvin Hayes, Earl Monroe belong on a lot of first teams, whether involving a last name by way of the Oval Office or not. Paul Pierce. Norm Nixon. And Mike Monroe can cover the El Presidentes.

Shaun Powell: (Woodrow) Wilson Chandler, (Chris) Paul Pierce, (William) Harrison Barnes, (Ulysses) Grant Hill, (James) Garfield Heard.

John Schuhmann:

Magic Johnson

Earl Monroe

Paul Pierce

Elvin Hayes

Marques Johnson

Sekou Smith: I’m going with Magic Johnson, Earl Monroe and Dennis Johnson in the backcourt, with Elvin Hayes and Paul Pierce rounding out my small ball All-Presidential first team.

Ian Thomsen:

Alvan Adams

Buck Johnson

Paul Pierce

Dennis Johnson

Magic Johnson

Lang Whitaker: Looking at the names, I realized that, weirdly, you could field an entire team of recent Nets (Vince Carter, Richard Jefferson, Stephen Jackson, Paul Pierce and Joe Johnson, and coached by Avery Johnson). But for my starting five I’ll go with Magic Johnson at the point, with Earl Monroe at the two. At the forwards I’ll go with Vince Carter and Paul Pierce, and at the five spot maybe Al Jefferson? And by the way, my back-up point guard? How about a crafty left-hander: Barack Obama.

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