When you think about James Worthy’s Hall of Fame career, he played against some of the very best players in the history of professional basketball. Just for a few examples: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley, Charles Oakley, Horace Grant, Dominique Wilkins, Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon and Kevin McHale, to name a few.
At one point, he said that playing Bird was more difficult than playing Jordan because Bird was more unpredictable.
But when he was asked who he would pick as the toughest opponent he had during his time in the NBA, he picked none of the players just mentioned.