There's only one thing that can settle this feud: An NBA championship.
There were several thousand fans standing and cheering when Kevin Durant was introduced as a member of the Phoenix Suns at Footprint Center on Thursday afternoon.“There’s pressure,” Durant said, “because I’m one of the best players ever to play the game …”
From the looks of the crowd in downtown Phoenix, most were too young to remember that about 30 years ago it was a huge deal when Barkley arrived in a trade with Philadelphia.Barkley was an MVP and a gold medal winner, perhaps the biggest star of the Dream Team, which featured guys like Magic, Larry and Michael.
And they’ve chirped at each other plenty of times over the years, setting up a purple-and-orange rivalry that can only be settled by a championship. Barkley did what he could, taking out David Robinson and the Spurs with a last-second jumper and destroying Shawn Kemp and the Seattle SuperSonics with a 44-point, 24-rebound Game 7 performance that’s still discussed as one of the greatest games ever played. But he was cursed when the Black Cat crossed his path in the NBA Finals. It was simply Michael Jordan’s era, and no one was going to beat that guy.And the same is true for Durant today.
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