The Non All-Star team

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In reading David Kahn's letter to the fans the other day, he mentioned that the team has yet to find that singular star to build around yet, which is true.  Most successful teams have a few stars that they build around for the future, and most championship teams have more than one.  Perhaps the only time in the last 30 years that a team has gone all the way without a single "franchise" player were the Detroit Pistons in 2004, who started Chauncey Billups, Richard Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince, Rasheed Wallace, and Ben Wallace, with some great pieces off the bench in Mehmet Okur, and Corliss Williamson.  Of those players, only Rasheed and Ben had been to the All-Star game before (Ben had gone the previous year and also the year during the championship run, while Rasheed went twice at the beginning of the decade).  Neither Rasheed or Ben were considered franchise level talent however, especially not compared to the Lakers team they played in the NBA Finals (and beat handily) who started Shaquille O'Neal, Karl Malone, Devean George, Kobe Bryant, and Gary Payton.

This is obviously an incredibly rare feat to pull off, and no team really tries to follow this formula (building around a star or stars is MUCH more successful).  But if you had to build a team consisting of players that had never been in the All-Star game before, who would you pick for your starting 5?  To make the exercise even more interesting, these players should not be on their rookie contracts.  Also, players that have been voted into an All-Star game but were not able to play due to injury do not count.

Here is, in my estimation, a depth chart (not in order) of the best players that haven't been selected to an All-Star game by position.

C: Andrew Bogut, Kendrick Perkins, Nene Hilario, Andris Biedrins, Emeka Okafor, Marcin Gortat, Marcus Camby, Andrea Bargnani
PF: Anderson Varejao, Luis Scola, Udonis Haslem, Troy Murphy, LaMarcus Aldridge, Carl Landry, Al Jefferson, Andray Blatche
SF: Josh Smith, Luol Deng, Shane Battier, Lamar Odom, Rudy Gay, Corey Maggette, Hedo Turkoglu, Richard Jefferson
SG: Jamal Crawford, Jason Terry, Ben Gordon, Kevin Martin, John Salmons, J.J. Redick, Andre Iguodala, Jason Richardsons
PG: Ramon Sessions, Monta Ellis, Kyle Lowry, Luke Ridnour, Raymond Felton, Lou Williams, Andre Miller, Jose Calderon, Kirk Hinrich

There are others you could mention, but I didn't feel that anyone would pick them over the players on the list.

My starting 5 of those players to try for a title would be Andrew Bogut, LaMarcus Aldridge, Lamar Odom, Kevin Martin, and Kirk Hinrich.  Bogut, Aldridge and Odom would give teams like the Lakers, Magic and Celtics trouble with their length, and Martin would be an absolute monster working off the ball.  His defensive efficiencies are nothing to overlook though, so I paired him with a good defender in Hinrich who can also shoot, unlike the other good defenders on that list in Lowry and Felton.  The players I had the hardest time keeping off this lineup were Andre Iguodala and Josh Smith.  If I had opted to put them on the team, I probably would have put Troy Murphy as the Power Forward to provide additional shooting as Smith and Iguodala are both poor shooters.

Who would your Non All-Star team be?