NBA: 20 Past Players That Would Have Owned Twitter
By Bill Speros
10. Charles Barkley
Going back to his days at Auburn, Barkley was one never to hold back his thoughts on any issue of the day. Covering a Celtics-Sixers playoff game in Boston back in 1987, I watched as a fan taunted Barkley outside the Philly locker room.
Barkley stormed out of the locker room in just a towel and grabbed the fan by the shoulders and challenged him to repeat what he had been saying to his face. The fan declined.
“Just another Boston asshole,” Barkley said of his heckler.
In 1991, he tried to spit on a fan yelling racial epithets at him but missed and a young child. The “Round Mound of Rebound” declared that “I Am Not a Role Model” during his infamous Nike campaign in the 1990s.
“Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball, doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.”
Even with the advent of social media during his current stint with TNT, Barkley has chosen to avoid social media. Given what he’s willing to say on air, it’s probably beneficial given how social posts can be quickly spread out of context.
By the way, he’s still unapologetically using the “N” work with his friends both black and white.
That’s always an attention-getter on social media.
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