Charles Barkley couldn’t have landed with a better team in the 1984 NBA Draft. Not only did the Philadelphia 76ers have a championship-winning head coach in Billy Cunningham running the show, but they were also led by veterans Julius Erving and Moses Malone at the time. The two Hall of Famers recognized Barkley’s immense potential right away, so they took him under their collective wing during his rookie year.

One of their first orders of business was taking Barkley on a $25,000 shopping spree to upgrade his wardrobe, and they taught him a valuable lesson he still remembers nearly four decades later.

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