NBA on TNT analyst and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley and Draymond Green goes back a long way. Just in the past few months, we've seen Charles describe Green as the "least famous person in the boy band" with the Warriors and Draymond claiming the 11-time All-NBA player is "jealous" of him." data-reactid="16">The war of words between the NBA over the TNT analyst and the NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley and Draymond Green goes back a long time. Just in the past few months, we’ve seen Charles describe Green as “the least famous person in the boy band” with the Warriors and Draymond claiming that the 11-time All-NBA player is “jealous” of him.
NBA on TNT's new show "The Arena" as hosts, alongside former NBA star Dwyane Wade and analyst Cari Champion. Naturally, the two were pressed early on about the evolution of their longstanding feud." data-reactid="17">The two were strangely paired for the NBA in the new TNT show “The Arena” as guests, along with former NBA star Dwyane Wade and analyst Cari Champion. Of course, the two were pressed at the beginning of the evolution of their longstanding feud.
“I’ve said many times, I like Draymond,” said Barkley on Monday evening during the show’s debut. “Sometimes it annoys me on the pitch because you have to ask him if he ever committed a foul.”
NBA's more notorious beefs." data-reactid="20">Green was then given the opportunity to respond, and explained his side of one of the NBA’s most famous steers.
basketball, and don't know what they're looking at. So when they look at a Chuck or they look at different guys who has these platforms, they take what you're saying and they listen to that and they run with that. So where as for me, it hasn't necessarily affected my pockets, but there are a lot of guys in this league that people run with what guys say on these platforms, and it affects guys' pockets, and that's the issue that I've had." data-reactid="21">“He’s a black man, I respect him,” Green told Champion. “The problem I had is that a lot of people watch the basketball game and don’t know what they’re watching. So when they watch a Chuck or look at different guys who have these platforms, they take what you’re saying and listen to it and run with it. So as for me, it didn’t necessarily affect my pockets, but there are a lot of guys in this league that people race with what they say on these platforms, and hit the kids’ pockets, and that’s the problem I had.
“It’s similar to how Javale McGee when he dated Shaq, (Shaquille O’Neal) and said ‘this is altering my career’, and I think that’s what we need to understand. When I said on ‘All the Smoke’ as black man, you have to support the next black man, you can’t keep putting down the next black man. I understand there is work to be done, but I also know that I have done too many fantastic things in this league and he has won a lot to listen to some about the things he’s saying about me. “
Although the feud appeared to have been fixed during Monday evening’s broadcast, Green told Mark Today Medina last Monday that the two are not exactly best friends suddenly.
“He’s not a friend of mine,” said Draymond. “He is not a person whose opinion is important to me. So there is no need to subtract anything.
“It’s not about me against Chuck. It’s about continuing to raise awareness of the problems we face as black Americans. Here’s what it’s about for me. However, what moment it occurs when we’re on the same set, I don’t know.
“But I think it will be a good TV. This is what matters at the end of the day. We will all get together and make a good product.”
NBA on TNT." Green joined the "All the Smoke" podcast in March, and made similar comments to what he said on Monday night to Barkley's face." data-reactid="29">Barkley doesn’t miss many opportunities to take photos of Draymond during the “NBA on TNT” broadcasts. Green joined the “All the Smoke” podcast in March and made similar comments to what he said to Barkley on Monday evening.
basketball player," he told former Warriors Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. "He never won s--t. Charles Barkley has kind of had this beef with me since I started coming up in this league. It's always him throwing a shot, throwing a shot, throwing a shot." data-reactid="30">“I have a lot of respect for Charles Barkley, the basketball player,” Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson told ex-warriors. “He never won. Charles Barkley has had this sort of beef with me since I started participating in this championship. He’s always the one throwing a shot, pulling a shot, throwing a shot.
“And for years, I haven’t answered … honestly – it’s jealousy. It’s jealousy that someone of the same size – or smaller – can come to the league and have the success I have had, make the money I made, I win the championships that I won. These are all things Charles Barkley hasn’t been able to do. “
Barkley reacted to the rhetoric of jealousy by striking the same analogy he had used before for Draymond.
“I get angry when these money-born guys think they are successful,” Barkley said on the “Coffee With Cal” show. “He’s like the worst member of the boy band who doesn’t realize he’s standing next to Timberlake. When the girls pull his pants on his head, they’ll get hit by some drive-by panties, but they’re really throwing panties at Justin Timberlake.
“Draymond is a good little player, but without Kevin Durant, Klay and Steph, he’s just a good little player.”
The two are probably making the cameras nice, but it’s nice to see that at least they can come together for a good cause.
