Source:Basketball Time Machine– Sir Charles Barkley talking about Larry Legend Bird.

Source:The New Democrat

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From the Basketball Time Machine

I’ll put it this way, Larry Bird was better than everyone in this video. I didn’t see Earvn Johnson or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Michael Jordan in it. I got Kareem down as the NBA GOAT and then I would let Larry, Earvin, Michael, and Wilt Chamberlain, battle it out for 2nd place.

As I explained on The New Democrat  on Monday, what made Larry Bird better than practically everyone else, including Michael Jordan, is he dominated the game mentally and through preparation. He was always a step ahead of everyone else, including his own freakin head coach K.C. Jones, whose in the Hall of Fame, the best coach that Larry ever played for, one of the best head coaches ever, probably a top 10.

I didn’t see the Charles Barkley comment on Larry Bird that matches up with anything in the caption in this photo, but he did have this to say to sports talk show host Dan Patrick about Larry Bird:

“Am I better than Bird? Man, that’s a great question. I’m a better rebounder. I’m probably a better defender. He’s a better shooter, obviously…It’s a team game…I do things better than him. If you give me Parish, McHale, and DJ imma be alright.”

From the Basketball Network

With all due respect to Charles Barkley, Sir Charles knows a helluva lot better. Of course Larry played for better teams, but that’s not the point. It’s what you do with the team that you play for and how you make them better and what you personally accomplish yourself.

Barkley is one of the best offensive players in NBA history, but probably not even one of the 50 greatest NBA players ever because he wasn’t a great NBA defender and was a liability defensively as a forward because he couldn’t guard the 3 or 4 very well.