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Basketball commentator Charles Barkley has repeatedly taken jabs at Spurs followers for the scale of their waistlines.
NBA commentator Charles Barkley was so disgusted with the New Orleans Pelican’s playoff efficiency that he stated the group would not deserve a visit to Cancun however moderately to Galveston.
“We’re not even going to ship them to Cancun,” Barkley quipped Saturday on TNT after the group’s 106-85 loss in opposition to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder. “We’ll ship them to Galveston, the place that dirty-ass water be washing up on the shore, and also you individuals suppose you are on the seaside.”
Chuck’s had it with the Pelicans 💀 pic.twitter.com/hko6mQY8kN
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) April 27, 2024
Don’t be concerned, Spurs followers. Barkley additionally had time to proceed his confrontation in opposition to the waistlines of San Antonio spectators. We’ll get to that momentarily.
For these not entrenched within the NBA or its tradition, throughout the 1998 Western Convention Finals, then-Lakers level guard Nick Van Excel, together with his group going through near-certain elimination, infamously chanted “1,2,3, Cancun,” earlier than operating out of the locker room — solely to be swept by the Utah Jazz. Or so Sports activities Illustrated reported the story.
Since then, “Cancun” will get bandied about when groups are about to be thrown out of the playoffs, together with the down-three-games-to-none Pelicans.
In a separate phase Sunday, Contained in the NBA co-host Ernie Johnson Jr. requested Barkley if he’d modified his thoughts about Galveston.
“That water is so soiled, I might moderately go to San Antonio — I might moderately go to San Antonio with these massive ol’ girls,” Barkley quipped, bringing co-host Shaquille O’Neal to tears.
Charles Barkley vs the ladies of San Antonio is one of the best feud in sports activities. pic.twitter.com/BI5Lg6jn6v
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 29, 2024
Barkley continued, “, that is the place they invented Victoria’s Secret, Jack. The ladies down there cannot get in these cute little underwear. They put on bloomers down there in San Antonio. Victoria is a secret down there.”
San Antonio is not any stranger to Barkley’s feedback about its residents’ girth. Certainly, the Spherical Mound of Rebound even took to social media earlier this month to warn Alamo Metropolis hoops followers to arrange for his arrival — and jokes — forward of the 2025 Males’s Ultimate 4, which will probably be held on the Alamodome subsequent March.
As unpopular as Barkley’s fats jokes is perhaps in San Antonio, he may have some extent about Galveston’s soiled water. Some 90% of all Texas seashores had been discovered to be contaminated with feces final yr, based on an annual report issued by the Setting, Texas Analysis and Coverage Heart.
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