Can we please just pick the 15 best players for All-NBA teams?
Donovan Mitchell - left off the All-NBA team. Image : Getty Images  Every year, some worthy players are left off the three different All-NBA teams and Twitter goes into an uproar. Sadly, what makes it even worse is that now these All-NBA selections are impacting players money. Just ask Donovan Mitchell and Jayson Tatum, who are undoubtedly two of the Top 15 players in the league but will lose out on $33 million in their rookie max extension because of this years voting. Advertisement  Im so fed up with the facade that we hedge to include all positions in All-NBA team voting. The list should strictly be the top 15 players in the league that season. Period. Im not in favor of expanding the All-NBA selections to more teams because then well just end up getting above-average big men on the 4th and 5th team list year after year and they dont deserve to be among the leagues best. Scrapping the position requirements on this list would be the best solution for the league. I dont care if the 15 best guys in the league that season are all 6-foot point guards, or if theyre all 7-foot, back-to-the-basket centers. Give me the 15 guys who had the 15 best performances, taking into consideration both statistics and team performance throughout the regular season. I understand that there were a lot of guys who had good seasons this year, but its no excuse for someone like Donovan Mitchell should be left off the list  hes the best player on the team with the best record, averaging 26.4 points a night. Not to mention that Suns superstar Devin Booker didnt make a squad either, which is also criminal. Advertisement  And thats not even the voters fault, thats the way the system is set up. So there must be a change. There will still be a debate about who those 15 guys should be every season but I can at least sleep at night knowing that the best guys were picked regardless of position. The NBA is always evolving, there was a point in time where the big men were the focus of basketball and it used to be a battle for those forward and center positions. Now, it has just flipped to the guard spots. If the NBA switches the format to the 15 best players, it solves that problem. Advertisement  Call me crazy if I think the All-NBA teams dont have to be constructed the same way an NBA general manager would build his team. With so much money on the line, its come time to finally change this outdated format and let the players performance speak for itself.