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Since the start of the 1999-2000 season, 1,697 different players have suited up in an NBA contest, ranging from A.C. Green, A.J. Bramlett and A.J. Guyton to Zoran Dragic, Zoran Planinic and Zydrunas Ilgauskas.

But only 12 can make B/R's All-2000s NBA team.

We're sticking to the traditional structure here, selecting starters at the five typical positions, backups for each of them and then two wild cards who can line up at any slot. And to earn those spots, players must have excelled throughout a large portion of the 18 seasons since the beginning of the new millennium.

Longevity matters. Peak performances come into play. Legacy is important. Basically, anything that happens on a basketball court is relevant here, though older players won't get credit for their early-season work before the beginning of that aforementioned 1999-2000 campaign.

You can probably name a couple featured players right off the bat. LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are on the squad, for example.

But are they starters? Who else joins them?

Time to find out.