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NBA fans who routinely watch and listen to mainstream media, the attention is almost always centered around a handful of teams. The Los Angeles Lakers, led by LeBron James, and the Golden State Warriors, led by Stephen Curry, were talked about an exorbitant amount relative to their status as legitimate NBA contenders, and Charles Barkley has a problem with that.
On one hand, those two teams have some of the largest and most passionate fanbases of any team in the league. On the other, Barkley claims they got the word ‘contender’ thrown around their name too often when, in actuality, they were not that good.
Charles Barkley recently joined the Bill Simmons Podcast, hosted by The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, to talk about Caitlin Clark, the state of NBA on TNT, and much more. Among the things they discussed was Barkley’s dislike for the amount that the Lakers and Warriors get talked about on rival networks that are partners with the NBA.
“I don’t know if you were watching our show,” Barkley explained. “But I went off on the news media last year, mainly a lot of those clowns over at the ESPN. I’m like every day for, like, three months, [they ask] ‘Are the Lakers and the Warriors contenders?’ I’m like, ‘Yo man, I told y’all six months ago, the Lakers stink, and the Warriors stink!’ I did a whole soliloquy. I’m like, ‘Why do you guys on other networks,’ — Some of them are friends of mine — ‘Why do you guys keep telling us the Lakers and Warriors are good?’ The Lakers stink! The Warriors stink! Think about that. And then when they both got beat in the imaginary playoff bullsh**t, Bill, that we made up, the play-in stuff, and then the Lakers win one game against Denver. I was like, ‘See, now y’all did your thing on TV every day. I told y’all, the Warriors stink and the Lakers stink.’” And right now they’re not relevant, either one of those teams going into the season.”
