Barkley on Rockets: "I really want my paycut money back."

This. Barkley really was all about the team. Forget Lebron and Wade taking a slight paycut, Barkley played for the minimum. I think it was $1mil.

 

I respectfully can tell you, I have my doubts! If he isn't, then I guess the homer in me is a lot stronger than I realized! When he's not bashing the Rockets he has a wonderful personality!...:grin:
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I reminder TOFs and YOFs hating Barkley cause he kept saying the Rockets aren't true contenders.

he's right. It's called people hating the truth.

Barkley took a massive paycut for Pippen. He was making less than Matt Bullard.

 

I'm a Rockets fan, but I suspect that the YOF's viewed this as a continuation of Barkley hating on Yao! To me Barkley doesn't come across as being someone who accepts being wrong graciously! I personally think he wanted Yao to fail! Can you imagine how Barkley would have felt if Yao would have won a championship AND he didn't? Especially after he trash talked about him saying he would never be anything special?

Once again, that was his choice to do that. Just as throwing away money on $300 bottles of wine and gambling away millions! It's all been done out of his own free will.
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Pay him in crispy cream donuts and call it a day. Lol

 

Barkley's a chump. I hated him in Phoenix but gained respect for him when he came here. But now it's he never wanted to come here? That's a hoe move

 

not like he is hurting...i bet he makes 5-6mil/yr with TNT....probably even more now after winning an Emmy

 

Barkley needs to work on putting together a coherent sentence when he's on TNT

 

I think the idea of team hopping to ring chase doesn't sit too well with him. I think it's one of the few (only?) times that it's not you, it's me actually rings true.

 

Why do you always have to speak reason? haha

 

I fell in love with Barkley just before he joined Houston. There was a book of quotes that came out, obviously all of the quotes were his. And they included context. He's incredibly funny. He's one of the best ever and trust me, don't put any weight in him talking trash. It's all in good fun. Regardless of what it seems like.

 

What about when he said Yao Ming will never score more than 10 pts a game? Or how about when he said the Rox only won a ring because MJ was out of the league? Or how about when he said the Rox will have the worst record in the West a couple of years ago?

Are those part of your truths as well? You have a massive problem, you hate Tmac on the pretense that he betrayed the franchise but then you go and glorify this loudmouth who says stuff Tmac doesn't even say. Who really loves this org? How about the dude who sat beside Hakeem and Les Alexander on a Rox home game?

I don't really care about Barkley, he makes NBA commentating interesting and I don't really think he takes all these stuff seriously,he ****s on MJ all the time in interviews but apparently they're really good friends. And tbh taking that paycut when he was playing really does outweigh all the crap he says now, anybody can say crap but what really matters is what you don on the court. However I don't like the way you demagogue saying fake Rockets fans hate or what, the dude has been crapping on the Rockets seen he became a commentator. Denying it is like saying climate change doesn't exist or the sun isn't hot.

 

I remember Barkley and Drexler hating each other. They both had valid points. Drexler was lazy on the job showing up minutes before game time. His lack of work ethic never changed in his time with the Rockets, coaching the Cougers, and in Dancing With The Stars. Off the court though, Clyde dieted properly and was in immaculate physical condition. Clyde was also not a loud personality.

Barley had passion for the game and a big mouth. He sacrificed financially, and on the court, put the team first. Off the court, Barkley couldn't stop drinking, eating, and strip clubbing. As great as he was, he could have been better had he the diet discipline of Clyde, who wrote in his book about his proper eating habits.

They both had their faults, and they hated those aspects of each other.

 

Don't mention anybody who can't lead us to the western conference finals.

Cause Barkley did and the 99ers remember , all of the Houston rockets fans remember.

What he says on TNT is for entertainment .

 

barkley taking that kind of pay cut is unheard of in today's NBA. it'd be nice to see more players in their twilight years do the same (payton, battier, malone, allen).

even if barkley came up short on the ring, he was fun to watch and is as good or better on camera.

maybe one day he'll make another bet on camera against houston... we all know how that turned out.

 

Whatever. If he had a contract where getting that money wasn't on paper, that's on him and his agent. Maybe Les said he'd pay him and should have, but this isn't grade school. There are contracts and agents for good reason.

Who is this Pippin fellow you all keep referencing?

 

Maybe Les should come out and tell Charles that if he would have defended better against the Stockton 3 he would have been rewarded handsomely. Oh well, c'est la vie.

 

Wrong.

You think Stockton was his defensive assignment ?
A power forward guarding a point ?

Go watch that play again.

 

Also, Barkley took the pay cut a full 14 months AFTER that game.