The debate about which team is better - the 2012 US Olympic team or the iconic Dream Team of 1992 will rage on.
Kobe Bryant said he thought his current team would just about get the better of the Dream Team, comments which Dream Team member Charles Barkley rubbished.
"Well, just from a basketball standpoint, they obviously have a lot more size than we do -- you know, with (David) Robinson and (Patrick) Ewing and (Karl) Malone and those guys," Bryant told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday.
"But they were also -- some of those wing players -- were also a lot older, at kind of the end of their careers. We have just a bunch of young racehorses, guys that are eager to compete.
"So I don't know. It'd be a tough one, but I think we'd pull it out."
Responding to the comments, Barkley, a member of the 1992 team which thrashed every country on their way to the gold medal, said the 2012 roster would not even come close.
"Oh yeah, that's no disrespect," Barkley told The Mike Missanelli Show on 97.5 The Fanatic Philadelphia. "I ain't got to badmouth them. But like I said, their point guards weren't going to beat us. That's a no-brainer."
Talking about Bryant's comments on the Dream Team's age, Barkley said the current squad was no different.
"I just started laughing," Barkley said. "How old is Kobe Bryant? He's 34? And he's calling us old? At the time, we were only like 28, 29.
"Michael Jordan and me were the same age. We were both 29.
"Other than Kobe, LeBron (James) and Kevin Durant, I don't think anybody else on that team makes our team."
