Everyone knows that the NBA is dominated predominantly by African-American and international players. The days of Jerry West, Rick Barry, Larry Bird, and even John Stockton are long gone. The only current white American to have been selected to an NBA All-Star game is Brad Miller and that was back in 2004. Sure, there are great white international players such as Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki and Pau Gasol, to name a few. But when it comes to white Americans, this country just doesn't measure up.

Yet, there are a handfull of very good white American players and I am going to tell you who I think are the best.

Let's start with the BEST SHOOTER: Philadelphia's Jason Kapono, hands down. He might be the best shooter in the entire league. Entering this season he was a career .454 three point shooter and had won two 3 point contests.

The BEST REBOUNDER has to be David Lee of the Knicks. Last year he finished third in the NBA in rebounding at 11.7 a game behind Dwight Howard (13.8) and fellow white American Troy Murphy (11.8). The reason I am giving the nod to Lee over Murphy is because over the last 3 seasons, Lee has averaged 10.4 rebounds per game, compared to Murphy's 8.4.

Who is the BEST PURE PASSER? It's a close call between Jason Willams of the Magic and the Bucks' Luke Ridnour. I have to give Williams the edge because he has the ability at times to do the unthinkable, and in his early days with the Kings- although he was very turnover prone- he reminded the basketball world of Pete Maravich.

How about a big man with POST MOVES? I have to give it to the Clipper's Chris Kaman. With all his hair flopping and oddness (is that a word?) he actually is a pretty good scorer in the post. Two years ago he averaged almost 16 points per game for LA's other team.

While were on the topic of bigs, the BEST SHOOTING BIG is the aforementioned Troy Murphy. He's 6-11 and can really stroke it from behind the arc, nailing 45% of his threes a year ago.

Rounding out the bigs is Denver's Chris Andersen for BEST SHOT BLOCKER and Chicago's Brad Miller for BEST PASSING BIG.

Moving on to peremiter players. The BEST SWINGMAN in the league is Washington's Mike Miller. He isn't quite what he used to be, but it was only 2 years ago that he was Memphis' most efficent scorer, averaging 16.4 points per game on .502 shooting. When healthy, Mike Dunleavy of the Pacers probably gets the nod over Miller, but it's been a while since anyone saw Dunleavy play and no one knows what to expect once he comes back from the injury on his right knee that limited him to just 18 games last season.

The BEST COMBO GUARD is Chicago's Kirk Hinrich. He can play both guard spots and he's usually good for 15 points and 6 assists while being a good clutch shooter.

As far as BEST POINT GUARD goes, I'll have to give it Portland's Steve Blake. Why? All he did last season was finish fifth in the entire NBA in assists-to-turnover ratio and help a young Blazers team win 54 games in a tough Western Conference. Plus, Nate McMillian likes him, so that should tell you something.

When it comes to BEST PERIMITER DEFENDER, Utah's Matt Harpring wins hands down, the only problem being he hasn't stayed healthy enough to help his team of late. Still, he's probably the only white dude in the world who isn't afraid to get in Ron Artest's grill and say something to intimidate him.

It's interesting to note that alot of the top white Ameican players were not the most highly touted, and in many cases, the most highly touted turned out to be busts. Brad Miller and Chris Andersen went undrafted! Jason Kapono and another good wing player, Kyle Korver were both second round picks, as was Steve Blake. David Lee was picked at the very end of the first round.

Highly succesfull college players, such as Adam Morrison and J.J. Reddick, who were both lottery picks (Morrison, 3rd overall!), have been disappointments thus far and Luke Jackson, who was picked 10th overall back in 2003 hasn't even been in the league since 2008! Time will tell if Tyler Handsbrough's success at the college level translates to the pro game.

In closing, if I'm putting together an all white American team, its gonna look like this:

STARTING 5: PG Steve Blake, SG Mike Miller, SF Mike Dunleavy, PF Troy Murphy, C Chris Kaman.

SECOND UNIT: PG Kirk Hinrich, SG Kyle Korver, SF Jason Kapono, PF David Lee, C Chris Andersen

THIRD STRINGERS: PG Jason Williams, SG J.J. Reddick, SF Matt Harpring, PF Kevin Love, C Brad MIller