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Barkley told Stephen A. Smith on Friday that if the 76ers win two titles in LeBron James' two years in Philadelphia — that’s if he opts in to the second — after agreeing to a contract Friday, it would solidify his GOAT case. “If he wins back-to-back championships and walks away this thing at 44, 45. I’ll say something I ain’t never said before. This dude, I think I just saw the greatest basketball player ever,” Barkley told Smith.
Though Barkley did mention that James has provided himself advantages with “stacking the deck” throughout his career when joining talented teams. “The number one knock on LeBron for older guys like myself has always been, ‘Yo, man, you always stacking your team,'” Barkley said. “He stacked in Miami. He stacked in Cleveland. He stacked in LA. Now he’s stacking it in Philly. So that to me, I’m going to still have the same criticism I’ve always had.”
While at last weekend’s celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe, Charles Barkley sat down for a podcast interview with Pardon My Take. And during the episode, he addressed the viral Inside the NBA confrontation. And in true Barkley fashion, he said that it wasn’t really anything he was concerned about because he and Green went for drinks at a dive bar after the show while NBA Twitter was on fire. “What was interesting about it, I didn’t even pay it that much of attention,” Barkley said. “So we go to a little dive bar after work all the time and Dray went with me that night. And so I’m not even paying attention because I don’t do the internet. I don’t do internet sh*t. So I fly and I land and I got 100 messages. I’m like what, somebody got traded or something. And then it was about the Draymond stuff and I was like, ‘I never even gave that a second thought,’ but I was really surprised how many people went after Draymond and defended me. I’m not sensitive at all because I say stuff about players. I hope they’re not sensitive because if I say it I believe it, that don’t mean I’m always right. So that didn’t even phase me whatsoever. I can take it as much as I can dish it out.”
This week, Barkley shared more details about that conversation on Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take.” “What’s up motherf–ker?” Barkley recalled playfully saying to Jordan, who was playing golf with Coleman. The Bulls icon repeated the words back to him jokingly, and then the pair talked and made plans to play golf together in the future. “We were great friends, brothers for a long time, and both of us [were] being selfish and stupid,” Barkley added on the podcast. Barkley said that during the conversation, both expressed that they missed each other’s friendship. And while he said Jordan is currently out of the country, the pair plan to golf when he is back.
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Barkley joined Unfiltered with Ricky Bo and Bill Colarulo on Philadelphia’s 97.5 The Fanatic this week to discuss the NBA offseason. And while projecting where James should play next season, Barkley insisted he will never catch Michael Jordan or even Kobe Bryant in the GOAT debate. But it’s not mental toughness or ring chasing keeping James from garnering the GOAT title, Barkley believes it’s that he’s too nice. “The three best basketball players I’ve ever seen in order; Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James,” Barkley said. “And I’ll tell you guys the difference, nobody ever said Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant was a nice guy. Now, LeBron’s a nice guy. Michael and Kobe, they want to kill you at all costs. That’s what separates them. Everybody likes LeBron, he’s a nice man. He’s a great, great basketball player. But them other two guys, they were fanatics. They were dangerous.”
Giannis Antetokounmpo: In sports, our success is just winning the championship. Now there's some people that have never won a championship, like Charles Barkley, a lot of other players not just Charles Barkley but they have impacted the game, they’re part of the culture. Allen Iverson never won championships. He was my favorite player growing up, I looked up to him. I wanted to be him. I had cornrows because of him as a kid. So, and I was able to get older, work hard, make the NBA, and then win a championship. He's part of my success.
The field is set for the celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe with fan favorites Charles Barkley, 2023 champion Steph Curry and three-time champion Tony Romo among the 90 celebrities competing. The American Century Championship is set for Wednesday-Sunday at Edgewood Tahoe with 90 entrants as of Monday, July 6.
NBA Base: Shaquille O'Neal apologized to Charles Barkley for doubting him on Jalen Brunson being the greatest free agency signing in NBA history. “Charles, I owe you an apology. You've been saying for the past two years that Brunson has been the best free agency signing ever. Now, it is. Now it becomes that.”
Charles Barkley on Knicks fans who attacked Spurs fan- "You're a scumbag, your mom and dad are scumbags, and your kids are scumbags."
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Dan Patrick Show: "Dan, you know I'm hoping they fire me. I got 6 or 7 years left on my contract that they know I've got no chance of doing. I would love for them to fire me and have to pay me for the next 6 or 7 years." 😅 – Charles Barkley on his "Cardi D's" comment
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones confronted Charles Barkley about his past comments about her city during the pregame coverage of Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday. “I learned a long time ago, you can’t teach courage, you can’t teach class, and Mr. Barkley reminds us of that,” Jones said with a joking tone.