Originally Posted by ChocoThunder

My favorite part is the fact he's like 6'5 and still one of the elite PF's to ever play the game.

Barely 6'4". Led the league in rebounds. So gross.

I'll take "cha-ching" over "bling-bling"

john stockton has 0 rings and derek fisher has what 5 rings, who had the better career?

 

Originally Posted by RoyalCrusher

46.2 minutes per game in the finals. 27.3 pts, 13 boards, 5.5 asissts, only turned it over 10 times in 6 games, what the fuck are u talking about kid

led the team in scoring 4 of 6 games, was a total of 5 pts off leading scorer the other 2, shut ur fuckin beak

Not trolling, just a bitter Suns fan. The ppg is inflated due to the 42, other than that he averaged what, 23? It's pretty widely known that he was partying every night during that playoff run. He'd have been absurd in that series if he weren't out drinking 'til 2am every night. Quote all the stats you want, those stats should have been better. The Suns should have won a ring that year. Charles is the reason they had a shot, but he's also the reason they didn't get it.

I'll repost one of those Barkley quotes from the link on page 2: "If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.". Is there anything else you need to know about the guy?

maybe partying every nite is what it takes him to get himself prepared for the game.

 

Originally Posted by Autolobotomist

I'll repost one of those Barkley quotes from the link on page 2: "If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.". Is there anything else you need to know about the guy?

Fwiw, I feel like this comment was just meant as a shot at announcers/media who build up scrappy (generally white) players who aren't very good at basketball (compared to other NBA players) and are always described as "working hard!" "hustling!" etc etc vs guys who are naturally gifted at basketball are rarely described as hard workers because they "make it look easy"

 

Originally Posted by BigGunX

Barely 6'4". Led the league in rebounds. So gross.

6'6" Still small for power forward, but 6'4" is point guard height

Barkley with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1991 No. 34, 32, 14, 4 Power forward/Small forward
Personal information Date of birth February 20, 1963 (1963-02-20) (age 47)
Place of birth Leeds, Alabama, U.S. High school Leeds High School (Leeds, Alabama)
Listed height 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight 252 lb (

Charles was listed at 6'6" but he was closer to 6'4". Some places list him as 6'4". I had lunch with him and Kenny Smith at a Hooters in Savannah back in 2002. He bought lunch for me and my soldiers. I had a soldier who was 6'5" and Charles was visibly shorter.

Anyway, he was f'n awesome to us and refused to let us pay for our own meals. He and Kenny were on their way to commentate a game in Charlotte.

One of my best memories. Such a great dude.

EDIT: Just found this on Hoopedia:

Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player, Basketball Hall of Famer, and sports anaylst on NBA TV. Barkeley is one of four players in NBA history who have compiled at least 20,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 4,000 assists: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Karl Malone. But when the conversation turns to the exploits of Barkley, many people think first of the always entertaining, sometimes outrageous running commentary on basketball and life he provided throughout his celebrated 16-year NBA career.

However, as a player he was the greatest anomaly in basketball history. Listed at 6-6, but probably actually closer to 6-4, he played power forward as well as anyone, often dominating players half a foot taller.

I think the argument for horry would be good had Barkley not led his team to the finals only to lose to greatest ever to play the game.

I just hope everyone who is using the money argument knows that Chuck although not Broke, prob has way less money than Big Bobert. As Chuck is a huge degen gambler w/ recorded monstrous debts and Big Bob prob pinches pennies. I like the argument tho. Basically you wanna be like the kid on a driveway doing your 3...2...1.. buzzer beaters all day, or do you wanna be THE guy on a team that can never quite get there.

what about Lamar Odom vs Charles

Fuck Horry. Barkley and it isn't close. Horry is like some idiot who luckboxes the main event. Right place right time doesn't make him a better player than Wesley Person.

 

Originally Posted by hangoverharry

My favorite two memories of Charles:
The one on one against David Robinson in the Western Conference semifinals in that video. I was watching that on like a 9 inch tv screen at the skating rink for our elementary schools skate night thing.

The other is the game winning shot he hit against the Blazers with .5 seconds left on the clock. That play never got the love I thought it should.