{"id":16817,"date":"2025-05-07T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/16817\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:11:10","slug":"charles-barkley-rips-nba-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/16817\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Barkley rips NBA critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Barkley might not always like watching the NBA Playoffs, but when he does, you better like it too.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Barkley was <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nba\/charles-barkley-bored-playoffs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bored by the NBA Playoffs<\/a>, struggling to stay awake during a first round series between the Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks. In Barkley\u2019s defense, there were a lot of really bad games during the first round of the playoffs, with the Pacers-Bucks series being particularly dull aside from John Haliburton <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nba\/shaq-giannis-antetokounmpo-altercation-tyrese-haliburton-dad-punk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">confronting<\/a> Giannis Antetokounmpo when it was over. The second round, however, appears to have reinvigorated Barkley.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThe last 3 games, if you don\u2019t like basketball it\u2019s something wrong with you\u201d \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>Chuck is JUST as enthralled as the rest of us with these Playoffs \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u5KUdOvxXr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/u5KUdOvxXr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT\/status\/1919980901859025363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Boston game, the OKC game and earlier tonight, I\u2019m like, \u2018Damn.\u2019 This is why you love sports,\u201d Barkley said on Inside the NBA after Tuesday\u2019s slate of games. \u201cYou can talk about who\u2019s supposed to win and who you think is gonna win, but until you go out there and lace them up\u2026but the last three games, if you don\u2019t like basketball, there\u2019s something wrong with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Knicks overcame a <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nba\/charles-barkley-dreading-unbearable-stephen-a-smith-knicks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">20-point deficit<\/a> to beat the Boston Celtics in overtime Monday night, followed by Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon hitting a three at the buzzer to shock the Oklahoma City Thunder. Tuesday night was filled with more excitement on TNT, as the Pacers went up 2-0 on the Cleveland Cavaliers after trailing by 20 earlier in the game.<\/p>\n<p>The games have been great in recent days and it\u2019s nice to see Barkley taking notice. Barkley is often beloved for his honest criticism of the NBA, but there are times where it seems like he\u2019s irritated by the league, causing some to wonder if he even likes basketball. And if you don\u2019t like basketball, there\u2019s something wrong with you.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Barkley might not always like watching the NBA Playoffs, but when he does, you better like it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[1431,7,2001,2002,1278],"class_list":{"0":"post-16817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-2025-nba-playoffs","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-charles-barkley","11":"tag-inside-the-nba","12":"tag-nba-on-tnt"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114468374886757219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}