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One Former Miami Heat Player Makes Steph Curry's All-Time Starting Five While Another Misses The Cut

Shaquille O'Neal was chosen for the dream lineup while LeBron James was left off
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One Former Miami Heat Player Makes Steph Curry's All-Time Starting Five While Another Misses The Cut
One Former Miami Heat Player Makes Steph Curry's All-Time Starting Five While Another Misses The Cut

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Steph Curry has gotten the best of LeBron James during their meetings in the NBA Finals. 

Curry also left James off his perfect starting lineup. Even though James is the player most often in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest player in NBA history, he didn't make Curry's cut. 

Curry recently gave his all-time NBA starting five. James didn't make an appearance on the list. Curry told BuzzFeed his lineup would be Jordan of the Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan and Los Angeles Lakers superstars Shaquille O'Neal, Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant.

At first, Curry picked Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird at small forward. He then switched to the late Bryant, who was killed in a helicopter accident in 2020. James did not make the list despite winning four championships with three different teams while becoming the league's career scoring leader last season.

Here's the lineup:

C: O'Neal

PF: Duncan

SF: Bryant

SG: Jordan

PG: Johnson

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Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star. TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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