One of the reasons that I’ve always been a Barkley fan. He’s not afraid to tell it the way it is.
Barkley has his faults, but I’ve had a good bit of respect for him and his opinions (well, at least a fair number of them) ever since I heard his response to getting cut from the tryout squad for the US Olympic Team back in the day (by Bobby Knight, as I recall) - Barkley said (in effect) “If it was my decision, I would have cut me too” - no whining, no excuses, and especially no race card, just rolling with the punch like a man.