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DBB on 3: Basketball and non-basketball top fives

We will soon be getting inundated with actual real NBA topics to talk about so let’s have fun for a minute.

In less than one measly month’s time we will have actual NBA preseason action happening. Where did the dog days go? It’s been such an eventful offseason it kind of weirdly flew by, right?

Anyway, in light of real news coming in droves very soon we thought it would be fun to take a minute to give a few Top 5 lists and invite you to share yours while loving or picking ours to bits, your choice.

1. What are your top 5 favorite NBA teams?
2. What are your top 5 favorite albums?
3. What are your top 5 favorite movies?

Justin Lambregtse

Top 5 NBA Teams:

1. Detroit Pistons
2. Cleveland Cavaliers
3. Minnesota Timberwolves
4 Washington Wizards
5. Denver Nuggets

Top 5 Albums:

1. Torches-Foster the People
2. The Incredible True Story-Logic
3. Roaring 20s-Rizzle Kicks
4. Sacred Hearts Club-Foster the People
5. Oracular Spectacular-MGMT

Top 5 Movies:

1. Star Wars series
2. The Prestige
3. Night at the Roxbury
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Fight Club

Sean Wheeler (hypnowheel)

Top 5 NBA Teams:

1. Pistons
2. Spurs
3. Warriors
4. Bucks
5. Jazz

Top 5 Albums:

1. OK Computer (Radiohead)
2. The Earth Is Not A Cold, Dead Place (Explosions in the Sky)
3. Dirt (Alice In Chains)
4. Bliss & Death (National Skyline)
5. Businessmen & Ghosts (Working For A Nuclear Free City)

Top 5 Movies:

1. Psycho
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Pulp Fiction
4. JFK
5. The Shining

Michael Snyder

Top 5 NBA Teams:

Detroit Pistons
Whatever team LeBron James is on
Whatever team JJ Redick is on
Whatever team James Harden is on
Whatever team Alonzo Mourning was on

Top 5 Albums:

All Eyez on Me – Tupac
Doggystyle – Snoop
Slim Shady LP - Eminem
Cocky – Kid Rock (Jamie!!!)
Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye

Top 5 Movies:

8 Mile
Warrior
Any Rocky variation
Dark Knight
Planet of the Apes variation (reboot)

Lazarus Jackson

Top 5 NBA Teams:

1. Detroit Pistons
2. Portland Trailblazers (Dame is my A1, top-of-the-list most fun player to watch in the league, but even before him I was watching for Brandon Roy and RUUUUUUDDDYYY)
3. Charlotte Hornets (...I live in North Carolina and watch more of their games than I should)
4. Milwaukee Bucks (DARK GIANNIS RISES)
5. Whichever team LeBron is on (that guy's pretty fun to watch)

Top 5 Albums:

You Get TEN, And You'll Like It (In no particular order. Well, MBDTF is No. 1, and all the others are in no order).
MBDTF - Kanye West
Hell Hath No Fury - Clipse
Is This It? - The Strokes
The Cool - Lupe Fiasco
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
52nd Street - Billy Joel
ATLiens - OutKast
Discovery - Daft Punk
Cadillactica - Big K.R.I.T.
John Coltrane. All of it. ALL OF IT.
Entroducing... - DJ Shadow

Top 5 Movies:

The Matrix
The Man from Nowhere / Man on Fire (Same movie, basically.)
Dredd (Urban, not Stallone.)
The Empire Strikes Back (Probably the best second act of a trilogy ever)
Snatch

Ben Gulker

Top 5 NBA Teams:

Pistons
Warriors
Spurs
Bucks
Anyone playing against LeBron James

Top 5 Albums:

With the advent of streaming music, I rarely listen to albums anymore. I typically listen to atmospheric electronic for a productivity boost at work and a top rock playlist while working out.

Top 5 Movies:

Movies? People still watch movies? I kid. But, I rarely do. If this were a list of top 5 TV series, I could probably give you 20!

Jamie Delaney

Top 5 NBA Teams:

Warriors (I will cheer for Durant wherever the man goes)
Lakers (I lived in Los Angeles for two years and they converted me)
Blazers (Long live Brandon Roy)
Thunder (Sucker for small market underdogs)

Top 5 Albums:

Kanye West - College Dropout
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
U2 - Joshua Tree
Drake - Nothing Was The Same
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key of Life

Top 5 Movies:

High Fidelity
Remember the Titans
Superbad
White Men Can't Jump
Back to the Future

Steve Hinson

Top 5 NBA Teams:

Pistons
Nuggets
Jazz
Spurs
Bucks

Top 5 Albums:

Jimmie Rodgers, My Rough and Rowdy Ways
Mississippi John Hurt, Library of Congress Recordings
Eilen Jewell, Letters to Sinners and Strangers
Flogging Molly, Drunken Lullabies
Dwight Yoakam, Hillbilly Deluxe

Top 5 Movies:

Duck, You Sucker
The Grey
Trading Places
The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
The Exorcist

Ryan Pravato:

Top 5 NBA Teams:

1. Detroit Pistons
2. Seattle Supersonics (Loved Detlef Schrempf and The Glove)
3. Phoenix Suns (Loved Barkley and Majerle - 93' was my first year watching hoops)
4. San Antonio Spurs (respect)
5. 76ers (be honest, we all enjoy a little bit of the process in our lives)

Top 5 albums:

Never really paid attention to albums much..

Top 5 movies:

The Hurricane (Rubin "Hurricane" Carter)
Hacksaw Ridge
Finding Forrester (decent amount of b-ball in it)
Pay It Forward
Slumdog Millionaire

Chris Daniels

Top 5 NBA Teams:

1. Detroit Pistons
2. Golden State Warriors
3. San Antonio Spurs
4. Milwaukee Bucks
5. Philadelphia 76ers

Top 5 albums:

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Steely Dan - Aja
Rollerskate Skinny - Shoulder Voices
D’Angelo - Voodoo
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - I Talk with the Spirits

Top 5 movies:

Fight Club
Short Term 12
Moonlight
Tommy Boy
The Sweet Hereafter

David Fernandez

Top 5 NBA Teams:

1. Detroit Pistons
2. Whatever team LBJ is on
3. Allen Iverson's Philadelphia 76ers
4. Boston Celtics (I live here, and the Stevens' era teams grew on me)
5. Tracy McGrady's Orlando Magic

Top 5 albums:

1. Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
2. Dude Ranch
3. Good Mourning
4. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. Slim Shady LP

Top 5 movies:

1. Step-Brothers
2. Star Wars (original trilogy)
3. Gangs of New York
4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
5. 3:10 to Yuma

Kevin Sawyer

Least favorite would be a more fun discussion, IMO.

Top 5 NBA Teams:

1. Pistons
2. Timberwolves
3. Spurs
4. Raptors
5. Rockets

Top 5 albums:

1. Ten - Pearl Jam
2. Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
3. Kid A - Radiohead
4. Elephant - White Stripes
5. Low - David Bowie

Top 5 movies:

1. The Up Series
2. Schindler's List
3. The Sweet Hereafter
4. A Christmas Story
5. Pulp Fiction

Sean Corp

Top 5 NBA Teams:

1. Detroit Pistons
2. Washington Wizards
3. Golden State Warriors
4. Houston Rockets
5. Denver Nuggets

Top 5 albums:

1. Illmatic - Nas
2. The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
3. Extraordinary Machine (unreleased version) - Fiona Apple
4. Velvet Underground & Nico -- Velvet Underground
5. Superfly -- Curtis Mayfield

Top 5 movies:

1. Goodfellas
2. Psycho
3. Night of the Hunter
4. Alien
5. Singin' in the Rain

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What are your Top 5’s? Please copy/paste and fill them in below!

1. What are your top 5 favorite NBA teams?

2. What are your top 5 favorite albums?

3. What are your top 5 favorite movies?