Charles Barkley Fires Back At Kobe
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Fans will debate which team would win in a head-to-head matchup -- the 1992 Dream Team or the 2012 USA Olympic squad.
But when Kobe Bryant plays it out in his mind, the 2012 team comes out on top.
"Well, just from a basketball standpoint, they obviously have a lot more size than we do -- you know, with (David) Robinson and (Patrick) Ewing and (Karl) Malone and those guys," Bryant told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday. "But they were also -- some of those wing players -- were also a lot older, at kind of the end of their careers. We have just a bunch of young racehorses, guys that are eager to compete.
"So I don't know. It'd be a tough one, but I think we'd pull it out."
In an interview on The Mike Missanelli Show on 97.5 The Fanatic Philadelphia, Dream Team member Charles Barkley said his squad would win by double digits.
"Oh yeah, that's no disrespect," Barkley said. "I ain't got to badmouth them. But like I said, their point guards weren't going to beat us. That's a no-brainer."
Barkley also brushed aside Bryant's comments about the Dream Team's age.
"I just started laughing," Barkley said. "How old is Kobe Bryant? He's 34? And he's calling us old? At the time, we were only like 28, 29. Michael Jordan and me were the same age. We were both 29. ...
"Other than Kobe, LeBron (James) and Kevin Durant, I don't think anybody else on that team makes our team."
But when Kobe Bryant plays it out in his mind, the 2012 team comes out on top.
"Well, just from a basketball standpoint, they obviously have a lot more size than we do -- you know, with (David) Robinson and (Patrick) Ewing and (Karl) Malone and those guys," Bryant told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday. "But they were also -- some of those wing players -- were also a lot older, at kind of the end of their careers. We have just a bunch of young racehorses, guys that are eager to compete.
"So I don't know. It'd be a tough one, but I think we'd pull it out."
In an interview on The Mike Missanelli Show on 97.5 The Fanatic Philadelphia, Dream Team member Charles Barkley said his squad would win by double digits.
"Oh yeah, that's no disrespect," Barkley said. "I ain't got to badmouth them. But like I said, their point guards weren't going to beat us. That's a no-brainer."
Barkley also brushed aside Bryant's comments about the Dream Team's age.
"I just started laughing," Barkley said. "How old is Kobe Bryant? He's 34? And he's calling us old? At the time, we were only like 28, 29. Michael Jordan and me were the same age. We were both 29. ...
"Other than Kobe, LeBron (James) and Kevin Durant, I don't think anybody else on that team makes our team."
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"Other than Kobe, LeBron (James) and Kevin Durant, I don't think anybody else on that team makes our team."
Chuck with the timely reality check -
Ain't like he lying...
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core vs core
lebron kobe KD melo> jordan pippen magic barkley ???
idk
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Barkley telling the truth
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Barkley up next to get Charlemagned....
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Melo makes the team too...but chuck's not lying
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Someone get Jordan or at least Magic to comment. No one cares what ringless Barkley has to say.
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if this US team were healthy i would take them over the dream team.
Paul/Rose/Dwill
Kobe/Wade/Harden
Durant/Melo
Lebron/Love
Howard/Bynum -
Barkely with the subliminal Ether @ Paul, DWill, Blake, Tyson, KLove, Russ, etc
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Melo doesnt make that team. Unless he's taking Laettner's spot.
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all the bigs from the dream team would abuse Tyson Chandler. and i'm not talking about in '92. I'm talking right now.
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Pippen would put the clamps on LBJ or Durant.
MJ got Kobe.
Ewing/Malone/Barkley shittin on Blake, Love, Chandler etc
Magic posting up and sky hooking all over Westbrook. Stockton killing him with the fundamentals.
However, Russ would run past their ? on the offensive end.
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This team wouldn't beat the '96 squad...
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Barkely with the subliminal Ether @ Paul, DWill, Blake, Tyson, KLove, Russ, etc
lol he right though
who would you take off for kobe, lebron, and durant? -
Pippen would put the clamps on LBJ or Durant.
MJ got Kobe.
? LMAO...
Nique & Drexler got off on Pippen routinely. -
it would easily be mullin, drexler, and laettner -
Nigs keep disrespecting Clyde.
SMH -
and bird was there for sentimental reasons, no chance he was being left off. only other person other than the 3 i named would be stockton
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NIcks keep disrespecting Clyde.
SMH
no, clyde wasn't even one of the first few named to the team. im not disrespecting him, i'm only saying that its common sense to assume those other 3 would be named first. -
Mullin, Laettner and Malone (because I hated that dude) -
Funny thing is the speed of the PGs would be a problem but if Zeke THomas was on '92 it would not be an issue.
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Barkley tripping, cp3, dwill and westbrook would ? on Stockton
Melo>>>>Mullin
The only clear advantage the dream team had was in the post -
The speed of the guards is irrelevant in regards to the fact HANCHECKING IS LEGAL in Olympic play and you got the best rim protectors ever in the paint.
This years team gets destroyed, that simple. -
Funny thing is the speed of the PGs would be a problem but if Zeke THomas was on '92 it would not be an issue.
Zeke wasn't making that team because that all hated him outside of Daly.
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stockton only playedin 2 games, so he wouldn't have been playing anyway.
magic, pippen, jordan, drexler would be checkin any player who didn't play in the post
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