NBA Players I’d Pay to See

by Casey Jacobsen When I officially retire from the sport of basketball and hopefully take a “real job” somewhere in the United States, I want to start a tradition of taking my three daughters to see some NBA games. As a former player, I appreciate the talent level of the League and readily admit that the NBA contains the best athletes in the world. If my daughters choose to play basketball, I want to allow them to see how the sport is played by the best this world has to offer. I plan on picking a few games per year in whatever city I reside (presuming I live in an NBA-occupied town). The games we go see won’t be determined by the teams, but by the players. My list of players is small — it includes the guys who I consider “superstars.” I think the terms “star” and “superstar” are used too loosely these days. Not every good player is a star in the NBA, and there are only a handful of superstars. Here is how I define the two: STAR – A top-25 player in the NBA, usually the...