Much better comparison monte. I would argue that Barkley was actually a better rebounder than Wilt too. But Rodman still takes the cake on this one. Here's the career stats and they are comparable since they played in the same era:

Barkley: 39,330 minutes played - 12,546 rebounds - 8,286 defensive - 4,260 offensive - .318 rebounds/minute - .211 defensive rebounds/minute - .107 offensive rebounds/minute

Rodman: 28,839 minutes played - 11,954 rebounds - 7,625 defensive - 4,329 offensive - .415 rebounds/minute - .264 defensive rebounds/minute - .150 offensive rebounds/minute

The comparison isn't even close when you consider the extra playing time Barkley had over his entire career. Rodman rebounds at about a 30% clip higher than Barkley did overall, and about a 40% clip higher on the offensive glass (which leads to those all-important 2nd chance points).

No doubt that Barkley was better on the offensive end, and equally no doubt that Rodman was the better defender.

"So the lowest scoring team from Wilt's era averaged 25.3 more shots per game than the highest scoring team from Rodman's era."

I had no idea the difference was that large. Pretty impressive.

If you took Jordan's highest scoring year (37.1 PPG) and normalized it with the extra possessions from Chamberlain's era, that year would have yielded him a 50.1 PPG compared to Wilt's 50.4 PPG.

Amazingly impressive for a shooting guard to do that instead of a dominant center.

Why should professional basketball players be allowed to participate in the Olympics?

They shouldn't. I'd love it if they were still all amateurs. But that's not going to happen.

to follow skrums tangent... why did the olympics decide that professionals arent allowed?

Why shouldn't they...

(in response to skurm, not monte)

yeah, Olympics should be the best of the best imo