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[QUOTE="Methalius, post: 5287951, member: 13213"]
I couldn't agree more.  I just getting ready to craft a reply but you hit on pretty much every point that I would have wanted to make.  Barkley was SUCH a force.  Even when he first came into the league.  He was a 6'4 1/2" power forward who could guard centers.  He was such an explosive leaper.  I have been a die hard Celtics fan since the mid 70's and I hated Barkley when he was a 76er but I had to admit that he was a great, GREAT player.  I have zero doubt that all 5 of the choices would have been just as great in today's game if not greater.  Barkley was a special talent.  Draymond Green being mentioned in the same sentence as Barkley is an insult.  Green benefited from being someone who was willing to do the dirty work on a team full of all time great shooters.  If you put a prime vintage Draymond Green on the 1985-86 Celtics he never would have seen the floor.

Also, Andrew Toney was a GREAT player.  I hated him too.  People forget just how good the 80's 76ers where because of the Celtics and Lakers but those Philly teams were powerhouses.  Moses Malone is a criminally underrated player as well.  Moses was a rebounding machine.  He was so good.  Don't even get me started on Bobby Jones too.  He was a pain in the neck as well.
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