OK, we get it. Charles Barkley doesn't like Draymond Green.
Being Barkley, of course, just saying he doesn't like Draymond is not enough. He's got to go on and say he'd like to punch him in the face. Which might seem more than a little out of line for a guy who's allegedly a professional studio analyst.
Apparently, though, his bosses decided long ago that professional decorum is not what you hire Barkley for. So it seems he has carte blanche to say whatever he wants to say, within reason.
(Or outside of it.)
In any case, Barkley going all get-off-my-lawn on Draymond seems less inappropriate than merely amusing, frankly. Draymond is, after all, half Barkley's age, just as big and far more fit. It also seems he's got Barkley's number, figuring correctly that this is just some old guy flapping his dentures.
Or so he said after the Warriors' 121-116 win over the Pelicans, when someone asked him about Barkley's comments.
Green pointed out that Barkley sees him numerous times throughout the year and thus has had numerous opportunities to (as Barkley put it) "punch his ass in the face." He hasn't done it, and he won't, because that would likely get him fired. So, as Green pointed out, it all amounts to a bunch of gasbagging from a senior citizen.
"Punch me in the face when you see me, or not. No one cares what you would have done," Green said. "He's old and it is what it is."
The truth hurts.
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