Charles Barkley is one of the underrated trash talkers in NBA history. Chris Webber gives the Hall of Famer his props for his vocal mouth.
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There aren’t many ex-NBA players who can claim to live as satisfying a life as Charles Barkley is. The 16-year veteran retired in the year 2000 and was promptly hired by TNT as an analyst.
Chuck was comedic gold from the first minute that he went on the screen on national TV. His chemistry with Ernie Johnson and Kenny Smith took the show to hitherto unseen levels of popularity and hilarity.
Over the years, Inside the NBA has become synonymous with sportscasting excellence. The way that Chuck manages to string comedic moments one after the another has been a staple on the show.
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“Charles Barkley said ‘I scored 24000 points right here in this position'”: Chris Webber
The NBA announced that it will release a list of its 75 greatest players ever on the 2021 Draft Night. This sets up the possibility for TNT to do yet another mini-series like ‘Open Court’, which they did 10 years ago.
Open Court put together all of TNT’s best NBA stars on its roster and brought their experiences in the league to the forefront. One of the best segments on the series was about the greatest trash talkers of all time.
As Shaq and Chuck brought up the names of Gary Payton and Larry Bird, among others, Chris Webber found it to be the right moment to address Barkley’s own claim to fame:
“I’m playing with him on Washington, and it’s my stint with Washington. And he’s a little older, I think, he only had about 4 years left in his career, and I foul him.”
“I get away with it, come back down. And he’s going off at the ref – ‘He fouled me!’ And I’m like ‘I ain’t fouled him, he’s over there crying.’ He looked at the ref like ‘I’ve scored 24000 points right here in this position. You’re gonna tell me he ain’t fouled me?'”
“The referee was just shook, and I knew I was in trouble. The refs were intimidated by his talk. With a lot of guys (referees), it’s not about how your playing, it’s what you’re doing and saying.”
![Jason Williams and Chris Webber have always been known to indulge in strange antics with each other, which was raised by Comedian Andrew Schulz, on his show, Flagrant. Appearing on the show, Jason Williams was asked whether he was involved "in a drive-by paintball shooting of Chris Webber's house in Sacramento". The White Chocolate burst into laughter and "plead the fifth". Williams confessed that maybe "his house caught some bullets along the way". However, to everyone's surprise, he told the comedian that "he [Chris Webber] was probably with me in some them drivebys." Adding to this, Williams also shared a hilarious story of a similar driveby with Webber, where the latter's shoe fell off but he had to somehow get it back. "We were doing that one time..we couldn't get in the gate or something so we decided we're going to go down and do our thing at the security guard at night, right, so we got two little scooters we are riding on these scooters and we dropped them in the dark and we are walking through the woods and whatever, we go the paintballs, we got the rocks, boom boom and we take off and left the scooters. But C Web's shoe falls off. And we got back and I was like 'Bro, where is your shoe?'" The story left everyone in the panel in splits as Williams made the 2021 Hall of Fame Inductee go all the way back to fetch his shoe because living in an all-white community, Webber was probably the only one with that size of shoe. However, on a serious note, the 2006 NBA champion confessed that it was one of the most fun times he had with his former teammate. He added that "it was a blessing in disguise" because they had to play a lot of games in different locations. It is obviously heartwarming to see such a chemistry between the legendary duo of Sacramento Kings. Jason Williams once had to travel in the undercarriage of the team bus Rookie hazing has been a part of teams in the NBA, where the veterans on the team try to build chemistry with young players in their own ways like alotting chores. Chris Webber once narrated one such incident where the rookie Jason Williams hid in the undercarriage of the team bus to avoid it. Upon reaching the hotel, the team noticed that Williams was missing. After searching for some time, the team looked under the bus and there was the 1998 draftee. When Webber asked him the reason, White Chocolate responded, "I don't wanna ride with y'all bi*ches up here." Even though it is a fun tradition among teammates to get to know each other, it did take a toll on the one-time All-Star. However, it was not long after this, the two developed good team ability to make some amazing plays together.](https://cdn-wp.thesportsrush.com/2023/11/7f3ad985-nba-2023-11-08t231816.707.jpg?format=auto&w=384&q=75)