Rick Barry Rates His All-Time Opponents, 1980

[Not much of an intro needed for this one. The headline says it all. A reporter asked Rick Barry to rate his toughest opponents, then turned on his tape recorder. Barry’s answer appeared in Basketball Digest in April 1980.]

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As one of the few players who had the chance to play pro basketball in three different decades (the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s), it…