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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."
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
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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.
Over the years, Barkley has taken jabs at the size of the women in San Antonio and residents’ appetite for churros. “They ain’t got no skinny women down there,” he said in 2010. So Jones offered the former Auburn star a box of churros, which he did partake in. “Mayor, I am so glad to be back in your beautiful city,” Barkley responded. “I took my walk today, and everybody was fantastic. They know I’m just joking around.”
Carl Herrera on Rudy Tomjanovich: Hakeem (Olajuwon) was the star, everyone comes to see him play, he's the team's leader and then he told me you’re gonna be the sixth man. I guarantee you 24 minutes. But I need you to guard whoever you have to guard. Karl Malone, all those number fours, Charles Barkley, that you have to guard. Change the pace of the game. I don't need you to score 20 points, although I know you have the ability to do so. Grab rebounds, block shots, run the court and give yourself completely to the game. Of course, I would ask him, "But why do I have to do the dirty work?" He tells me, "Because you have the ability to do it and I know it."
CHARLES BARKLEY: "I think that Adam Silver's got to get a hold of this thing. I think the games are too disjointed right now. Like NBC, Peacock, Amazon, we've got, I think we have disrespected the fans. They don't know when the games are on. I just think that's really unfair to the fans. And I understand, Adam, I love Adam. Adam's a great guy. But he took the most money, but man, it's hard for me. When we weren't having games, I had to go to my app and see where the game was at."
"I had to get a kick out of Draymond. So when he made the line about he didn't want to be you with the Rockets, which everyone said, 'Well, look at Charles with the Rockets,' his numbers were as good as Draymond's with the Warriors. What I found interesting was afterwards, after all the blowback, Draymond on his podcast said, 'Kenny didn't hear the line, that's why he didn't respond,' which I thought was really weak of Draymond to say that. Kenny heard the line. Let's not play that. Because you guys didn't sell, in wrestling terms, WWE, you have to sell for your opponent. There was no selling there. What's been the fallout from that whole situation?" CHARLES BARKLEY: "I was surprised how many people came to my defense, to be honest with you. I'm not sensitive. I say stuff about players all the time. I hope they don't take it personally. I didn't get mad when he took a shot at me. I was embarrassed my last two years in Houston because I was shot. I did not play well at all. People would point out those two years I felt like I was shot, they were better than Dray's career numbers. I didn't take it personally. I don't get sensitive. I really appreciated all the people who went after Draymond for saying that."
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CHARLES BARKLEY: "I don't do the pill. I take a shot once a week. I started at 355, Jimmy, and I'm 270 now. It's been a long journey. Because, like I say, I gained like 100 pounds when I got my hips because I played at 250, but I wanted to get to 270 and this drug Zepbound has changed my life. I feel better than I have in 20 years. I tell people this who are fat, you don't realize how bad you feel until you start feeling better. I got used to just feeling awful. I was like, everything's going to hurt all the time. I just get used to that. And then when you lose like the first 20, 30 pounds, you're like, wow. And I couldn't eat enough bird food and work out enough to get from 355 to 270. And they got these drugs out here at your disposal because, man, you want to be healthy when you get older. I mean, I just turned 63. I'm not getting any younger. And, like I say, I want to eat, and I definitely don't want to work out all the time."
Charles Barkley on Shams Charania leaking the MVP winner: I like him a lot, but I I didn’t like that leaking. That network paid $2.5 billion for the next 11 years. 2.5, which is the reason we lost to NBA, ’cause we couldn’t come up with 2.5 billion for 11 years. I think the NBA should be, embarrassed that that got out I mean, you can’t charge these networks that much money and then don’t give them some exclusive on some things. I just think that’s unfair.
Fullcourtpass: “We live in a homophobic society, and that’s unfortunate. First of all, anybody who think we ain’t got a bunch of gay players in all sports, they’re just stupid.” - Charles Barkley (h/t @MrBuckBuckNBA )
“We live in a homophobic society, and that’s unfortunate. First of all, anybody who think we ain’t got a bunch of gay players in all sports, they’re just stupid.”
— Fullcourtpass (@Fullcourtpass) May 14, 2026
- Charles Barkley
(h/t @MrBuckBuckNBA) pic.twitter.com/3ZvkEgEPGE