I dont see one comment where he came at lebron wrong. gave him props all the time by saying hes great its just some stuff bron does thats kind of boderline or suspect. PLUS REMEMBER PLEASE THIS IS HIS JOB TO TALK ABOUT NBA PLAYERS. HES ON A SHOW ABOUT THE NBA AND NBA PLAYERS. Lol. But its still **** charles barkey for those dumb *** comments about BLM.
A fed-up LeBron James ripped TNT analyst Charles Barkley on Monday for his never-ending comments on James’ decisions and play.
“He’s a hater,” James said, according to ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin after the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 104-97 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Monday. “What makes what he says credible? Because he’s on TV?
"I'm tired of biting my tongue. There's a new sheriff in town."
Barkley had recently admonished the four-time league Most Valuable Player for publicly demanding Cleveland’s front office improve the roster mid-season after they failed to make a splash in free agency over the summer. James’ comments came after the team made a trade for renowned sharpshooter Kyle Korver.
“Inappropriate. Whiny. All of the above,” Barkley, a Hall of Famer and former 11-time NBA All-Star, said of James last week. “The Cleveland Cavaliers, they have given him everything he wanted. They have the highest payroll in NBA history. He wanted J.R. Smith last summer, they paid him. ... They brought in Kyle Korver. He's the best player in the world. Does he want all of the good players? He don't want to compete? He is an amazing player. They're the defending champs."
James, tired of Chuck’s years’ worth of comments, unleashed:
"I'm not going to let him disrespect my legacy like that," James said, via ESPN. "I'm not the one who threw somebody through a window. I never spit on a kid. I never had unpaid debt in Las Vegas. I never said, 'I'm not a role model.' I never showed up to All-Star Weekend on Sunday because I was in Vegas all weekend partying.
"All I've done for my entire career is represent the NBA the right way. Fourteen years, never got in trouble. Respected the game. Print that."
It wasn’t the first time Barkley took a small jab at LeBron’s legacy. In fact, it’s been a constant.
Over the summer, Chuck told HBO’s Bill Simmons he felt James would never eclipse Michael Jordan, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, or Wilt Chamberlain to become one of the top five players in NBA history. On ESPN Radio’s Mike & Mike show, he didn’t have the three-time NBA champion in his top seven players of all time.
Those comments came years after he called LeBron’s 2010 decision to leave Cleveland for the Miami Heat a “punk move.”Fast forward a few years and James has finally had enough of Barkley’s banter.
Charles Barkley has a history of riding James
In 2008, two years before LeBron announced his decision:
“If I was LeBron James, I would shut the hell up. I’m a big LeBron fan, he’s a stud. You gotta give him his props. But I’m getting so annoyed that he talks about what he’s going to do in two years,” Barkley said on The Dan Patrick Show. “I work for TNT. What if I keep saying every week, ‘I can’t wait to go to ESPN in two years.’ I just think that’s disrespectful. ... For him to talk about where he’s going in two years, I think it’s disrespectful to the game and I think it’s disrespectful to the Cleveland Cavaliers. It pisses me off every time I see it.”
James responded: “He's stupid. That's all I've got to say about that."
When Cleveland fell to the Warriors in six games in the 2015 Finals:
"They went six games, but you've got two guys that are all-stars that are missing," Barkley said of the Cavaliers to Sports Talk Live. "The series went six games but LeBron ran out of gas. First of all, some of those guys they had out there were just in the way. LeBron just flatout ran out of gas. You put two guys that are also all-stars on that team, and the Warriors still might've won. I would've picked the Cavs if everybody was healthy.
"LeBron should call this Trainwreck 2 'cause the Finals was Trainwreck 1."
When LeBron stepped over Draymond Green during the 2016 NBA Finals:
“You’re supposed to pop him in his junk if he steps over you like that,” Barkley said to Sirius XM Radio’s Howard Beck and Noah Coslov on NBA Sunday Tip. “That’s a perfectly fine response if a guy does that.
“I gave Draymond a compliment. I said, ‘You could have played in our day.’ Because when a guy steps over you, you have a moral obligation to punch him … You have a moral obligation. Because that’s really disrespectful to step over a guy.”
On LeBron comparing himself to Jordan in August:
“I don’t know how he just passes Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan,” Barkley said according to CBS Philly. “If he win a couple more championships, yeah he’s in that conversation, but that’s a long way to go.”