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Everybody knows that Charles Barkley tends to make outrageous comments and has a history of upsetting people. On last Thursday night’s edition of “Inside the NBA”, it was LeBron James’ turn to get criticized for entertaining questions about 2010 when the Cavs played the Knicks in New York.
“The outside forces should never affect your locker room,” Barkley said. “I think LeBron has made some of the right comments, but he hasn’t made the perfect comment. He still alienated 11 guys in his locker room. What I mean by that, he hasn’t said, ‘We are 12-3 right now, we are a championship-caliber team and we are going to win multiple championships here while I’m here, period, end of story.’ ”
When LeBron heard of Barkley’s comments, he responded by saying that “He’s stupid. That’s all I have to say about that.”
Nevertheless, Barkley also expressed a fair amount of good things about the young superstar. “LeBron James is one of my favorite players, but he’s been 100 percent wrong in this situation,” Barkley said. “It’s unfair to the city of Cleveland and it’s unfair to the Cleveland Cavaliers team. If it was a year away it would still be unfortunate. I wish he would sign a lifetime deal with the Cavaliers.”
