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“It’s interesting,” Barkley said. “I was just chillin’ at the house last week, and one of my good friends is Vince Coleman, the great baseball player. When we answer the phone, we (jokingly) say some unkind words to each other … he says, ‘Yo, I’m down here at The Grove. I’m sick of you and MJ’s BS. He’s right here. Y’all need to talk.’ And we had a conversation, but Vince Coleman’s the person who’s responsible. We (Barkley and Jordan) talked for a couple minutes. He said, ‘Man, let’s get together and play golf. And as soon as I get a break, we’re gonna fly down there and spend a couple days playing golf.’” The Grove XXIII is Jordan’s private golf course in Jupiter, Florida.

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“I think we’ll be fine,” Barkley said when asked if the relationship may still be chilly. “I tell people it’s not like we’re Prince Harry and Prince William, who hate each other. Honestly, I think we both missed each other, because we’ve had this conversation with other friends, and we’re both too stubborn to pick up the phone, to be honest with you. But I think both parties missed each other a great deal. “Listen, man, I’m not one of those guys. I ain’t trying to prove no point, or I ain’t got no animosity, one thing we both said: I got a lot of love for you, and you got a lot of love for me. Like Vince said, ‘This thing has been silly and stupid, but both of y’all are too damn stubborn to pick up the phone, and y’all need to get y’all asses together and play golf and bury this thing.’”

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Q. You're an amazing player, man. One of the best ever to do it. But then you have this conversation, just lazy people I guess, when they talk about ring culture, and ring culture doesn't necessarily validate someone who as elite as you. Do you think people have become more lazy in that conversation when it comes to judging people's careers? Patrick Ewing: Well I'm not going to say people have become lazy. I think that you know all of us who I don't care which sport you play everybody when you at the beginning of the year that have a goal. My goal is to win a championship. And growing up in Boston where all you they talk about is Bill Russell and his 11 rings. So I'm like sh*t I'm going to get me 11 rings like Bill! And then in college I got to the finals three years. So, I'm like in the NBA, yeah, I'm gonna get me a ring. But then you get there and you realize how difficult it is to get a ring or to even get there. I was fortunate to get there twice. The second time we got there, I was hurt. I tore my Achilles and I couldn't play. But I don't see the fact that I don't have a ring or Charles Barkley don't have a ring or all the other great players who play this game that don't have a ring. I don't see that diminishing what they have accomplished. I think that all of us have done something special to to be able to get to where we've gotten, but it just wasn't in the cards for us to get that that elusive championship.

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Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan may be mending their friendship. The former NBA stars, both 63, ended their friendship years ago after Jordan took issue with a comment Barkley made about Jordan's ownership of the Charlotte Hornets. But now, Barkley has said the former friends may put their feud to rest. "We had a conversation," Barkley said during an appearance on Sirius XM's Mad Dog Unleashed on Friday, April 17. "We're going to get together and play golf as soon as basketball is over."

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"We're not like Prince William and Prince Harry," Barkley continued. "We've always had a lot of love for each other, but we talked, actually, in the last 72 hours," he said. "We decided to get together and play golf as soon as basketball is over." Barkley said in February 2023 that he hadn't spoken to Jordan — who purchased the then-Charlotte Bobcats in 2006 and sold his majority stake in 2023 —in the ten years since the Chicago Bulls icon felt dissed by Barkley's criticism.

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Barkley appeared on "Mad Dog Unleashed" and told Chris "Mad Dog" Russo that he and Jordan would spend time after the NBA season. “We had a conversation,” Chuck said. “We’re gonna get together and play golf as soon as basketball is over.” “We’re not like Prince William and Prince Harry. We always have a lot of love for each other. But we talked in the last 72 hours, we just decided to get together and play golf as soon as basketball is over.”

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Oh No He Didn't: Chuck on the Bucks: "They've got some punks in that damn Milwaukee locker room. When you leak what happens in team meetings you a punk. That's just a punk ass move in my opinion"

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Barry Jackson: Bam said if wizards tomorrow do what Charles Barkley recommended in 83 point game, and foul hard and put him on his butt, he will shoot 43 free throws again

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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.

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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–.”

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Inside the NBA likes to have fun with Charles Barkley’s lack of knowledge about the NBA with the game “Who He Play For?” where Ernie Johnson quizzes him on which NBA team journeymen are currently with. John Wall is not Charles Barkley.

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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.

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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)

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