Posted on 05/26/2016 6:32:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Charles Barkley is walking entertainment and the brilliant Inside the NBA would not be the same without him and his off-the-cuff opinions (which is a great thing in sports talk, not so much with national policy).
But he remains the leader of the annoying #getoffmylawn crew of older players who don’t like today’s game.
Barkley was on the Bickley and Marotta on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM last week and went off again on the state of the game.
“People think us old guys hate when we talk about it. It has nothing to do with the Warriors’ greatness, LeBron’s greatness. But I’ve never seen the NBA as bad as it is, and I’ve been saying it the last three or four years. We’ve got too many young players coming out of college that don’t know how to play. It’s frustrating for me because I want to see competitive basketball.
“We took a survey on our crew … How many actual NBA teams would you buy season tickets for?” he added. “Four in the west and Cleveland obviously in the east. That’s not good for our league.”
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Interesting comment. I don't enjoy watching basketball anymore, and that might be one of the reasons. It all moves so quickly that it's difficult to focus on nuance.
Charles Barkley: “I’ve never seen the NBA as bad as it is”
Correction
“I’ve never seen Charles Barkley as bad as he is” :>
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