Not many people in the world would know more about basketball greatness than Charles Barkley. He may be among those in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame without a championship trophy, but he played alongside some of the greatest to ever do it, including Michael Jordan, who he'd agree is hands down the NBA's G.O.A.T.
However, although the baller-turned-TNT analyst is willing to place an old rival in MJ at the pinnacle of hoop supremacy, he also has a love for the game of football and is a huge hockey fan. And he's just not prepared to say that Jordan is any greater than the greatest to do it in each of those respective sports.
"There's no winner. That's A and 1A. They're the two greatest of what they ever did. Wayne Gretzky's in that conversation. Uh... but they're the greatest. Wayne Gretzky, Tom Brady, and Michael Jordan. They're the three greatest," Barkley told a TMZ reporter who recently caught up with him and posed the question as he traveled his way through LAX airport.
Before moving on to such topics as LeBron and talk of him leaving Cleveland, and Kobe Bryant possibly winning an Academy Award, the reporter continued to press, but the stubborn son of Alabama's response would prove no different. "Can't put one or the other," he said.
