Ultimate All-star Showdown: MVP vs SMC

Over the weekend, the MVP Sports Foundation made the unthinkable happen by bringing over a star-studded line-up for two exhibition games at the newly-christened Smart-Araneta Coliseum. It's been covered on ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, CNNSI, etc. primarily because of the amount of talent that came over. The Drew League in LA has seen stars drop in one-at-a-time, and the same things have happened in numerous Pro-Am leagues and Charity events, but never has a game seen a set of players with some many individual accolades:



2 League MVPs, 2 Scoring Champions, 3 Rookies of the Year, 2 5-time NBA Champions... and the list goes on!



Rave reviews of the basketball scene from fellow players, authors such as Rafe Bartholomew and countless sports company execs, not to mention a big pay day could have them hop on the next flight over to Manila. Also, now that there has been a precedent, making it happen a second time around probably wouldn't be as difficult.



Just to spark some thought into this, what if the San Miguel Corporation, a rival of the MVP group, would bring over a set of all-stars on their own. Who would they bring? And perhaps the better question, who would win in a Smart vs SMC battle?

1. Lebron James - Easy pick. LeBron vs. Kobe should happen. Why not in Manila?

2. Dwight Howard - Adidas needs Dwight here because D-Rose was with Smart.

3. Carmelo Anthony - Melo is the only one who could score with the ease of KD.

4. Rajon Rondo - Matches up with CP3 - assists, steals, boards

5. Steph Curry - Steph vs. Reke for the best scoring combo guard position.

6. Jodie Meeks - Meeks vs. the Beard shooting 3s while spotting in the corners

7. Andre Miller - the only other slow PG who Sol Mercado will again try to take advantage of

8. Darrell Arthur - young 3/4 with great athleticism to match up with Derrick Williams

9. Kyrie Irving - will probably be burned if he ends up matching up w/ Rose/CP3/Evans.

Clearly, advantage to this team is the Dwight vs. McGee match up. But to make things even, this team will clearly have a weaker back court opposed to the Rose-Paul-Evans-Fisher combination.

So who do you think will take this match up?