It's a really subjective statement to make. It would be cool if we could put players in time machines and have teams from different eras play. But in my view, Charles did play in the golden years of the NBA. I think 85-95 had so many good teams: lakers, blazers jazz, suns, sonics, spurs, then in the east you had Celtics, Pistons, Bulls, Cavs, Knicks, Hawks, Pacers... If I were to construct an all time NBA team, the majority would come from that era. But in terms of parity, it's almost always been a couple teams in each conference dominating....but I think the 2nd tier teams from the golden era would be 1st tier today.