Team Rookie of the Year Awardees vs MVP players? Who would win? Who would you root for?

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I divided each team with players who won regular season MVP but didn't get the rookie of the year in their rookie season, against Rookie of the Year awardees. Here are the lineups:

TEAM ROY STARTERS
C - Wilt Chamberlain
PF - Tim Duncan
SF - Larry Bird
SG - Michael Jordan
PG - Oscar Robertson

Reserves
C - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
C - Shaquille O'Neal
PF - Pau Gasol
SF - LeBron James
SF - Elgin Baylor
SG - Allen Iverson
PG - Jason Kidd

TEAM MVP STARTERS
C - Bill Russell
PF - Karl Malone
SF/SG - Julius Erving
SG - Kobe Bryant
PG - Magic Johnson

Reserves
C - Moses Malone
C - Hakeem Olajuwon
PF - Kevin Garnett
PF - Charles Bakley
SF - Dirk Nowitzki
PG - Bob Cousy
PG - Steve Nash

As you may notice that there are a lot of Rookie of the Year players who deserves more to be on that lineup on some other players like David Robinson, Patrick Ewing and Rick Barry. They are better players than let's say Pau Gasol and LeBron James, but I intentionally exclude them since both The Admiral and Ewing are centers, and Team ROY is already stacked with more talented ones, and the Team ROY is lacking in power forwards so I put Gasol in there. In the case of Rick Barry, only few users here knew him well so I left him in favor of James. 

As for Team MVP, you may notice that Dr. J's position is either shooting guard and small forward. I only insert him as a SG since only Kobe Bryant who is the legitimate SG in their team.

Other notable names (with the year they won the award and their team) excluded in both teams:
Team ROY
1985-86 Patrick Ewing New York 
1965-66 Rick Barry San Francisco 
2006-07 Brandon Roy Portland 
1989-90 David Robinson San Antonio 
2007-08 Kevin Durant Seattle 
2005-06 Chris Paul New Orleans/Oklahoma City 
1993-94 Chris Webber Golden State 

Team MVP
1977-78 Bill Walton Portland 

Thanks in advance!

Heatfan9 · Accepted Answer

Holy... you did a great and awesome job on this...

I'm going to go with the MVP Starters, all because of Wilt Chamberlain, I have a little problem with him, he is not a very good teammate and only cares about stats while in the MVP starters you have the great Bill Russel who is a great teammate. Also with Magic in there it just like Stockton to Malone only you have a better PG.

Team MVP has a lot of unselfish people and that would be a great team.
Team ROY is also good, but the chemestry is something you need to look at.

Team MVP over Team ROY 200-187, there going to score a lot of points, lol.

I would root for Team MVP for the same reason of Bill Russel, Magic, Nash a lot of great unselfish player out there.

Showtime · Answer

Iam taking team MVP


Bill plays great D on wilt who 
Malone and duncan would be a good match up with tim coming out on top
Then bird gets the best of his match up
Jordan<Kobe
Magic would edge out oscar


The key match ups with the back ups would be who could check LBJ but charles played some SF before so i would not worry to much about that 

I believe AI would shot jack his team into a hole
And the hekeem vs shaq match up would also be big who can keep the other from dominating on the boards and defense 

I would root for TEAM MVP simply beacause two of my all time favorites hakeem and magic

smit · Answer

MVP: LeBron James (ultimate participant by making use of a few distance on the final group) Rookie: Derrick Rose (having ultimate statistical 300 and sixty 5 days) protection: Dwight Howard (extensive presence and stats at shielding end of floor)

229Time · Answer

Team ROY...Shaq/Kareem off the bench. I'd go with them.

Honestly both teams are so stacked it's ridiculous...either team could win.

Simar Chhabra · Answer

team roy michael jordan

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