NBA All-time Starting 5

Great take today from Colin Cowherd on Lebron.  

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=12962241

His all-time starting 5:

Magic PG

MJ – SG

Lebron – SF

Bird or Duncan – PF

Kareem – C

Really like that starting 5. 

But an obvious cheat, not taking one PF (you Can't have Bird AND Duncan!).

So while I otherwise agree with this starting 5, I WILL choose.  And I’ll take Duncan.  I want his durability.  He could also really be considered in the conversation as the greatest TEAMMATE ever.  How could you not take him on that aspect alone?  But I didn’t get to experience Bird.  Sad but true.  So I might be biased but I’m going with what I know

And the best ever is still not up for debate:  Jordan …and I don’t believe I’ll ever see anyone better in my lifetime. 

Lebron might be a better athlete.  But basketball is a very mental sport. And Jordan was a cold –blooded killer.  He just NEVER lost once he reached the plateau.  Lebron has now made 5 straight finals (6 total).  He has 2 rings (3 if he wins this year).  Twice Lebron won only 1 game in the Finals. 
Jordan made 6 Finals and won 6 rings.  

Simplify

Great list:
http://zenhabits.net/simple-living-manifesto-72-ideas-to-simplify-your-life/

one I really like:
Learn what “enough” is. Our materialistic society today is about getting more and more, with no end in sight. Sure, you can get the latest gadget, and more clothes and shoes. More stuff. But when will you have enough? Most people don’t know, and thus they keep buying more. It’s a neverending cycle. Get off the cycle by figuring out how much is enough. And then stop when you get there.

Inviticus

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903).