CHARLES BARKLEY DAUGHTER 1993 SERIES

He won league MVP (over Olajuwon and Jordan) while leading Phoenix to the best record in basketball. That couldn’t keep him off the Dream Team, which he led in scoring.Īlso in the summer of 1992, the Sixers finally made good on their pledge to trade Barkley, and he instantly elevated the Suns to title contenders. He became a fixture on the All-NBA first team, all while Philly either lost in the first round, lost in the conference semis to the Bulls, or missed the postseason altogether.

CHARLES BARKLEY DAUGHTER 1993 SERIES

Then came Barkley’s prime, and a series of forgettable Sixers squads. After earning the first of eight top-six MVP finishes, he dropped 31-20-6 and 37-14-9 against the Bucks in the conference semifinals while averaging 28-15-4 in the seven-game series loss. Upon entering the league alongside Hall of Famers Moses Malone, Julius Erving and Maurice Cheeks, the portly wonder averaged 15 points and 11 rebounds as a rookie during the 76ers’ 1985 conference finals run.īy his second season, Barkley was the best player on an aging Philadelphia roster. But in a cruel twist of fate, Barkley was either too young or old to capitalize with his best supporting casts. Barkley, generously listed at 6-foot-6, 252 pounds and affectionately dubbed the 'Round Mound of Rebound,' got through just about everyone.

'He kept running into Jordan and ‘The Dream’, the two greatest players of the ‘90s by a wide margin, and he couldn’t get through them.' 'When you talk about some of the best players in sports history to never win a ring, Charles’ excuse for never winning a ring, it’s not much of an excuse,' Wright said.

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