You can't argue with the volume of players Duke, UNC and the rest of the ACC have pumped into the NBA but the All-NBA teams suggest you can with the quality.
Of the 15 players on the three All-NBA teams, one came from the ACC (Wake Forest's Tim Duncan, a third-teamer this year).
Not that the SEC (one), Big East (one), Big 12 (one), Pac-10 (one) and Big Ten (one) have any room to brag.
The best players in the NBA — three on the first-team and four out of 15 — never played a minute of college ball. Add the two of the international players on the all-league list and 40 percent of the list is from outside the NCAA.
In a logical world, this would support the idea of letting players go pro when they please, instead of sentencing them to one year in college or overseas. Unfortunately with the NBA and NCAA, we're not dealing with a logical world.
First team
F LeBron James (high school)
F Kevin Durant (Texas)
F Dwight Howard (high school)
G Kobe Bryant (high school)
G Dwyane Wade (Marquette)
Second team
F Carmelo Anthony (Syracuse)
F Dirk Nowitzki (Germany)
F Amara Stoudemire (high school)
G Steve Nash (Santa Clara)
G Deron Williams (Illinois)
Third team
F Tim Duncan (Wake Forest)
F Pau Gasol (Spain)
F Andrew Bogut (Utah)
G Joe Johnson (Arkansas)
G Brandon Roy (Washington)
