It's a little slow, so here's the game.

Basically, you're building your team using their actual salaries. You need at least 13 players and it has to fit under the salary cap. To make the math a little easier, let's make it $60 million.

Other rules:

1) No more than one of these suerstar caliber players, defined below. No Miami Heat imitators here.

Lebron
Durant
Wade
Kobe
Dwight
Paul
Rose
Westbrook
Love

2) Only two guys on rookie contracts that start, and only one that's "star caliber". No gaming the system by taking Kyrie Irving, Blake Griffin, James Harden and Anthony Davis as your starting lineup around Lebron. Use your judgement on "star caliber", I don't feel like doing a whole list. If you think he might be a star, he probably should count as one.

3) You are choosing an actual team, so you actually need big men. No teams made entirely of perimeter players.

Here is a good link for NBA salaries: Hoops Hype Salaries. Use their 2012/2013 salaries. You can assume options are picked up (not qualifying offers), but try to avoid guys with no numbers for next year.

Also, since some people here will probably want to use him and his salary isn't listed on that site, use $16.325 mil as Derrick Rose's salary (best estimate).

Alright, my crack at it.

PG Kyrie Irving- $5.53 mil (rookie contract starter #1)
SG Wes Matthews- $6.505 mil
SF Lebron James- $17.545 mil
PF Paul Millsap- $7.2 mil
C Marcin Gortat- $7.259 mil

Bench



SG Tony Allen- $3.3 mil
SG/SF Klay Thompson- $2.286 mil (rookie contract starter #2)
PF/C Ed Davis- $2.207 mil
PF Taj Gibson- $2.156 mil
PG Earl Watson- $2 mil
PG Eric Bledsoe- $1.7 mil
PF/C Ronnie Turiaf- $1.2 mil
SF Jimmy Butler- $1.098 mil

Total- $59.986 mil


That was WAY harder than I expected.

Fighting my way through this is making me see the disgusting amount of money bad players make!

Especially bigs. Any big man off their rookie contract that has a pulse makes like $4 million.

PG Jeremy Lin @1.054
SG Marcus Thornton @7.632
SF LeBron James @17.545
PF Blake Griffin @7.226
C Al Horford @12.000

C Roy Hibbert @3.655
SG Jordan Crawford 2.162
SG/PG Norris Cole @1.113
PG Earl Watson @2.000
PF Ronny Turiaf @1.200
PG Greivis Vasquez @1.191
C/PF DeJuan Blair @1.054
C Gustavo Ayon @1.500

13 players

59.332 million

Jeremy Lin is a nice loop-hole until he gets his new cotract.