Everyone in the NBA is athletic or they wouldn't be there, and all the generalized talk seems a little silly to me. Maybe we should be talking about a narrower definition - the pure athlete - which, to me, means someone who has the natural gift to compete in almost any physical activity they attempt....above average from the get go at most sports and excelling at any sport they play on a regular basis...

the players I'd put in this catefory for our team would be
Chauncy, probably Sheed, Blalock, Dice and Hunter, maybe Amir, maybe Delfino

Sometimes I think this has a lot to do with body proportion which may be the eliminating factor in my mind for some of our other players.