HERE IS THE FACTS ABOUT: Larry Bird & Magic Johnson, the two men who saved the NBA………

Charles Barkley will forever be grateful to the people that made the NBA what it is today. If the NBA wasn’t televised live, we wouldn’t have witnessed that thrilling matchup in the 1993 Finals between The Round Mound of Rebound and his fiercest rival. NBA players and NBA fans weren’t rich when he and Michael Jordan first joined the league. Barkley is still indebted to two other gaming icons who helped make it that way by winning eight titles together in the 1980s.

On The Stephen A. Smith Show, he declared, “Magic Johnson and Larry Bird are the two most important people in NBA history.” The NBA was spared by those men. He continued, saying, “Every time I see Magic and Bird, I tell them, ‘thank you, man.’ Magic Johnson and Larry Bird changed the whole thing.”