The Bare Fisted Challenge: Can Your Team Beat My Team?

Michael Jordan is the reason a lot of great players never won a ring. There are those who think that winning rings proves you're great, but some players just had greater teams get in their way. What if history had just altered a little bit. What if MJ never came back? What if the Bulls hadn't picked Pippen?

Or what if the right players had managed to come together on a different team? Here's you chance to change things and make history different. The challenge is, come up with a team of players who never won a ring that could have been a dynasty. There are three rules though.

1. All the players have to have played at the same time. You have to list a year, and those players all have to have been active that year. 
2. Everyone has to play in their true position. 
3. No one on your team is allowed to have won a ring. Hence, the "bare fist" in the Bare Fisted Challenge. 

My dynasty began in 1987 when the Scaletta Superbads select the final piece of their team to go on an 8-year run, frustrating the great Michael Jordan and preventing him from winning a ring. Historical facts are not accurate in this world, but they are in the alternate world where the Superbads are a real team. Behold! The Superbads!!!

PG: John Stockton

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30 Jan 2001: John Stockton #12 of the Utah Jazz moves with the ball during the game against the Seattle SuperSonics at Key Arena in Seattle, Washington. The Jazz defeated the Sonics 102-88. NOTE TO USER: It is expressly understood that the only rights

John Stockton was the point guard of the Superbads. He is the NBA all-time leader in assists and steals. There are those who argue that Stockton was a beneficiary of having so many great teammates; that anyone could pass the ball to the teammates he was surrounded with on the Superbads. His defenders merely point to his eight NBA championship rings and say that's all the evidence they need, contending that he was actually the real star of this team, and made the whole engine run. 

SG: Reggie Miller

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INDIANAPOLIS - MAY 15: Reggie Miller #31 of the Indiana Pacers takes a free throw shot in the second half against the Detroit Pistons in Game four of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2005 NBA Playoffs on May 15, 2005 at Conseco Fieldhouse in

Reggie Miller is that final piece of the Superbad puzzle. When he's drafted, the Superbads get what they've been needing, a player who can consistently hit the outside shot, and who can be counted on to hit the game winner. As a Superbad, Miller goes down in history as the super-baddest heart-breaker of all time. Legends are chronicled of how he repeatedly broke the hearts of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA finals. 

SF: Dominique Wilkins

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1991: Dominique Wilkins #21 of the Atlanta Hawks passes during a 1991-1992 NBA season game against the Denver Nuggets. (Photo by Tim DeFrisco/Getty Images)

The Human Highlight Film was the perfect fit on the Superbads. Able to score from behind the arc, or slashing to the rim for his monster dunks, he was making spectacular plays on a nightly basis. Wilkins was a five time MVP with the Superbads and is widely considered the greatest player ever.

People speculate though, that had Jordan had a similar team around him, he would have won. It is a source of great debate among writers of Bleachers Report. 

PF: Karl Malone

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SACRAMENTO, CA - APRIL 21: Karl Malone #32 of the Utah Jazz examines the ball in Game two of the Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Sacramento Kings during the 2003 NBA Playoffs at Arco Arena on April 21, 2003 in Sacramento, California. The Ki

Karl Malone and John Stockton ran the pick and roll with such precision for the Superbads that many argue that Malone could have been one of the ten best scorers in the history of the game had there not been so many great teammates surrounding him. His 20 points and 10 rebounds per game are plenty sufficient to earn him his ticket into the Hall of Fame. His low post scoring threat, accompanied with Miller's sharp shooting from the three, combined to open the floor for Wilkins to do his tremendous damage. 

C: Patrick Ewing

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23 Apr 2000: Patrick Ewing #33 of the New York Knicks dribbles the ball to the basket as he is blocked by Charles Oakley #34 of the Toronto Raptors during round one of the NBA Playoffs at the Madison Square Garden in New York. The Knicks defeated the Rap

There are those who will tell you that the real heart of the Superbads wasn't the offensive firepower but it was the defense that was the real reason the team won eight straight. And everyone agrees that you can't talk about the Superbads' defense without discussing what many consider to be the greatest defensive player ever, Patrick Ewing. As Stockton captained the offense, Ewing did the defense.

He was the heart and soul of this defense and was the reason that such greats as Hakeem Olajuwon and David Robinson never won a ring. Ewing may be the real reason the Superbads were the greatest team in the history of the NBA. 

Can your bare-fisted team win a ring? Can it beat my team? Below, list the team that can beat them, and don't forget the year!