Is Minnesota Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns really one of the five best shooting big men of all-time?
Admittedly, ranking current NBA players in context compared to past generations is becoming exceedingly difficult with the variance in the style of play from one era to the next.
But Bleacher Report's Andy Bailey gave it a shot, and the results were somewhat surprising.
Minnesota Timberwolves: Towns ranked fourth-best shooting big man all-time
Clearly, today's NBA features far more big men capable of shooting from long range than ever before; in the 1990's, a "stretch big" was someone like Charles Barkley -- or, for Timberwolves fans, Tom Gugliotta -- shooting from long-two land.