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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 5080516, member: 767"]
I also think the further away you get from a players career, like I said the stats matter more, and the narrative matters less.  Because at the time, the legacies of guys like Barkley and Malone is that they werent good enough to win a title.  Malone winning the MVP over Jordan was mocked at the time (Barkely over MJ as well I think, but to a lesser extent, correct me if I'm wrong) but now it's "2 time MVP Karl Malone" and he's an all time great and he's unassailable whereas if you tried to make that argument during his era I am not sure the success you would have.  Ditto Barkley, he is famously a guy who never won a title but he had really great numbers (and was a great player) and is a beloved tv presence so you dont hear as much about that now (unless you listen to Kenny and Chuck of course).  The further away you get from the career the less you remember any of the failures

I'm making more of a general than a specific point here, because to me Malone and Barkley are better players than Davis.  But in 20 years Anthony Davis is going to be a guy with 4-5 first team all NBAs, 10-12 AS teams, a title, and you're going to look at whoever the current day version of Anthony Davis is and think "i'm supposed to think this guy is better than Anthony Davis??"

Edit: Also Oscar Robertson's legacy for most of his career was that he was a guy who put up great stats who didnt win anything.  So nothing like James Harden
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