The incredible NBA talent that resides in Los Angeles calls for an All-NBA Teams compilation — Los Angeles edition. Laid-out will be the three All-NBA LA teams, composed of just players from the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Los Angeles Lakers have always been the responsible ones for bringing incredible basketball talent to the city of Los Angeles. While the Lakers are embodying just that yet again, so is another LA team.
The Los Angeles Clippers have two of the NBA’s best superstars on their roster in Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. The two forwards aren’t alone, however, rather they are accompanied by a plethora of basketball talent that some would argue outranks that of the Lakers.
The dynamic duo matchup in Los Angeles is magnificent. The Lakers possess the league’s best big man in Anthony Davis and the greatest player of this decade in LeBron James. You ask why that doesn’t make the Lakers the clear choice as the NBA’s best team in Los Angeles? Well, that’s because the Clippers have debatably the world’s greatest basketball player today in Kawhi Leonard and another top ten player and two-way stud in Paul George.
This, of course, has all caused Lakers and Clippers fans to go at one another in persuading the other that their respective teams run Los Angeles. There’s no way to settle the debate of who will run LA this season until we hit June of 2020. We can, however, create All-NBA Los Angeles teams comprised of just Lakers and Clippers, in which the Los Angeles Lakers outrank the Clippers in roster talent. This fun All-NBA LA Teams construction may prove to determine who’ll be holding the Larry O’Brien trophy in a year from now.
In ascending order, here are the All-NBA LA teams. I.e. These are the best players from the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers at each position.