What IF Duncan had entered the league before The Admiral?

Heart and skills? Garnett is already overflowing with both IMHO. I don't know how Barkley can dominate the league more than Garnett has with his body. Barkley is already an athletic freak the way he was, a 6'5 mound of lard shouldn't be able to get up like that in the first place.

Giving AI Jordan's body wouldn't do anything because what made Jordan special was not his body, but his mentality, work ethic and high Bball IQ, and none of those would carryover on AI. AI hates practicing and didn't learn how to move or play effectively without the ball, and I doubt any of that will change all you because you put him in an athletic 6'6 body.

 

Parker & Ginobili weren't that great the first championship, especially the rookie Ginobili.

 

Barkley was a freak, but that alone wasn't enough. Barkley could get his body to do things to maybe an average PF level, but couldn't get his hands up higher than Malone or run faster than Larry Johnson. What he had was the innate ability to maximize what he could do that let a guy that was undersized for his position win an MVP award. Making Barkley taller, faster, and longer should only increase his output. Garnett has a ton of heart, but I don't know that he is at Barkley level. Garnett has a ton of skills, but I know he is definitely NOT at Barkley level, especially on the block. Barkley at 7' would be a beast comparable to a Kareem.

Saying that Jordan's body had nothing to do with his greatness is dumb. AI is one of the great guards of his era with a 5'11" 175ish body. Now sure he is super fast, even faster than Jordan, but that doesn't make up for the difference in size and strength that he loses. His style, especially earlier in his career, of hurling himself into the paint with reckless abandon would have only been helped by having a 6'7", super muscular frame to do it with. He was already a multi-time scoring champ. It isn't unrealistic to think having a far superior body would get him another 5 points per game and maybe another rebound or two. That would make him a career 32-6-6 player, which is crazy stats for his era. For comparison's sake, Jordan is a 30-6-5 player, and Kobe Bryant is 25-5-4 for his career. Now, AI doesn't have the leadership of a Jordan, so it may not translate to team success, but he would be a beast.