Hall adds 4 greats -- and maybe the greatest

Posted Sep 11, 2009
Michael Jordan was the best, no doubt about it. That's what Charles Barkley was forced to acknowledge in 1984, when he arrived at the U.S. Olympic trials believing he was the best player in the nation and left realizing someone was better. "I think it wouldn't be fair to say I thought he was going to turn out to be the greatest basketball player ever," Barkley said, "but I knew he was good." Countless others would call Jordan the best in the 25 years since. (Durham Herald-Sun)

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