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Charles Barkley on Bam Adebayo: I like him a lot as a person. I think he represents everything that's good about the game. There was clearly some things about that game I did not like: The fouling, just giving him the ball every single time... Ernie Johnson: He says if you want to blame somebody, blame Brian Keefe, the Wizards head coach. He said he shouldn't have waited till I had 70 to start throwing another guy at me. Barkley: Yeah, but like I say, Bam, great accomplishment. People going to have a debate, but I'm never going to say anything bad about Bam cuz I got love and respect for that guy. He represents everything good about the NBA.
Bam Adebayo broke the internet on Tuesday when he dropped 83 points on the Wizards in a 150-129 Miami Heat win. Some who witnessed the feat weren’t fans of how it played out. The game was lopsided enough for the Heat to have sat Adebayo under normal circumstances. But the team left the All-Star center in the game and continued to feed him despite the win already being in hand. Barkley was upset for a different reason. The Hall of Fame power forward appeared on Saturday’s ESPN Tip-off show and lambasted the Wizards for showing “no pride whatsoever.” “I’m disgusted by the Wizards,” Barkley said. “As a competitor, you’ve got to go dirty. … When you’re down 20, and the game is over, and now a team is like, ‘just go for the record,’ you’re disrespecting me. I thought the Wizards, who’ve got no pride whatsoever, obviously they’re tanking, but you’ve still got to have pride. If a guy’s doing that, you’ve got to knock him on his a–.”
John Wall has a memory and knowledge of current basketball players that appear to be unmatched on planet earth. The Amazon game was “Where’d He Go To School?” and challenged Wall to name the college program of many NBA players who aren’t household names. Incredibly, he got 16 out of 20 names right as his Prime Video colleagues marveled at his capabilities.
.@JohnWall showing elite college basketball knowledge 🧠 pic.twitter.com/fGajh4ypdQ
— NBA on Prime (@NBAonPrime) March 14, 2026
Charles Barkley: All these guys who run these organization who talk about analytics, they have one thing in common. They a bunch of guys who ain't never played the game and they never got the girls in high school and they just want to get the game. I'm not worried about Daryl Morey. He's one of those idiots who believe in analytics. And listen, I wouldn't know Daryl Morey if he walked in this room right now. Daryl Morey: Yeah. Probably the most known clip about me out there. So, I would say mostly when I heard it, I felt like Charles was right cuz I didn't get the girls in high school. And yeah, it hurt a little bit. I got to be frank. I was like, man, Charles is good at what he does. So, it's true. We all love sports. And yeah, Charles's way in was getting a lot of rebounds and my way in was data. Daryl's reacting to an infamous Charles Barkley rampant from inside the NBA. The Hall of Famer was echoing what a lot of people felt at the time. Barkley: It's just a crap of some people who were really smart made up to try to get in the game cuz they had no talent, because they had no talent to be able to play. Shaquille O’Neal: I agree with you on that. Barkley: So smart guys wanted to fit in. So they made up a term called analytics.
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NBA Courtside: Charles Barkley gives 3 ideas on how to fix tanking: • Can’t raise ticket prices if you’re below .500 • Every lottery team gets ONE ping pong ball • Remove pick protections in trades (Via @ESPNNBA)
Charles Barkley gives 3 ideas on how to fix tanking:
— NBA Courtside (@NBA__Courtside) February 21, 2026
• Can’t raise ticket prices if you’re below .500
• Every lottery team gets ONE ping pong ball
• Remove pick protections in trades
(Via @ESPNNBA) pic.twitter.com/7pYfnj3U4o
Kevin Johnson on Charles Barkley: This is a brother you want to go to war with. And now y'all got me on my second regret. Man, I hate watching him on TNT and now ESPN with Kenny and Shaq and they get on him by not winning a championship. He deserved an NBA championship. That brother fits in that league of elite players that have won an NBA champ. And the fact that he doesn't pisses me off every time I see him on TV. I’d give up me winning the champ for him winning it because that brother deserves it.
Kevin Johnson on Charles Barkley: He's not afraid to take a stand on things that may not be politically correct. And his role model growing up was Muhammad Ali. And Charles is the modern-day Muhammad Ali. And I don't say that lightly.
Charles Barkley was as boisterous on the court as he was off of it. As for how the Round Mound of Rebound dealt with stress? Let’s just say he had a fondness for visiting strip clubs. “So Charles and I had a bet one time. I ain’t gonna tell you what the bet was, but if I won, he had to go to church with me,” Kevin Johnson revealed on the “Club 520” podcast. “And if he won, I had to go to a strip club with him. That was the bet.” Unfortunately for Johnson, Barkley won the bet. Being a man of his word, he agreed to his teammate’s terms. “That n— made me go to a strip club with him in Houston. Oh, in Houston of all places!” KJ recalled. “I ain’t know what to do. I ain’t, you know, I went—I’m not saying I was whatever—but I ain’t know what to do in one of them places.”
NBA on ESPN: "We don't need any player suffering from mental health ... but this sounds fishy." Charles Barkley and the Inside the NBA panel break down Paul George’s 25-game suspension and what it means for the Sixers moving forward.
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Charles Barkley wants Dillon Brooks to be an All-Star reserve. During Barkley's appearance on SiriusXM NBA Radio's "NBA Today" show Wednesday, Jan. 28, he supported the Phoenix Suns' fiery defender.
Barkley told NBA Today co-hosts Justin Termine and Barkley's ex-teammate Eddie Johnson that Brooks "deserves a lot of credit (for) what's happening in Phoenix."
Barkley compared Brooks to Draymond Green's style of play: a defensive specialist, key playmaker and irritant to opponents. Green earned four All-Star appearances during Golden State's four-title run between 2015-22.