Build two ten-man teams from the all-time pool and play them against each other — a single game or a series. Every game plays out quarter by quarter with a full box score.
Four guards, three forwards, three centers. No more than one Legend at any position — the rest of the roster is yours to stack or balance. A man taken by one team is off the board for the other. O and D are points per 100 possessions above an average player; they decide the game. The minutes rule splits 240 by career workload, so ten heavy-minute stars dilute each other.
How the players are rated: each man's whole career, measured against the league he played in and put on today's scale (a 2026 league scores 115.7 per 100 possessions). Offense and defense are points per 100 above an average player. Old-timers are given a modern shot diet — a 1960s guard with a shooter's touch takes threes here — so the box score reads like this season. Steals, blocks and turnovers weren't recorded before 1974, so defense for the earliest greats is set by hand. The ratings will disagree with reputation here and there; that's the game. For fun; neutral floor, no injuries, no fouling out.