If anyone has an issue with Charles Barkley for getting a little overzealous about seeing Cardi B at Madison Square Garden, he is here for all the backlash and more.<\/p>\n
The curvaceous rapper performed at halftime of Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs on Monday night. Barkley was simultaneously performing at the Garden on Inside the NBA. And when he saw an up close camera shot of Cardi B, he couldn\u2019t help but share his excitement by suggesting an upgrade<\/a> to her name.<\/p>\n Charles Barkley: \u201cI don\u2019t know if those (are) B\u2019s. They might be Cardi D\u2019s\u2026 I\u2019m pretty sure those aren\u2019t B\u2019s\u2026 She\u2019s got the wrong initials.\u201d<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing.bsky.social<\/a>) June 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if those (are) B\u2019s. They might be Cardi D\u2019s,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure those aren\u2019t B\u2019s\u2026 She\u2019s got the wrong initials.\u201d<\/p>\n Barkley once lamented<\/a> the fact that TNT asked him to stop talking and making comments about the \u2018big old\u2019 women of San Antonio. But while Barkley has refrained from making any jokes about the \u2018big ol\u2019 women of San Antonio during these Finals, that doesn\u2019t mean he won\u2019t find other body types to poke. Barkley\u2019s comment was met with some surprise, but also a lot of laughter from the Inside the NBA crew, and likely everyone watching at home. But if anyone has an issue with the comment, Barkley hopes they make it known.<\/p>\n During an appearance on The Dan Patrick Show Wednesday morning, Barkley was asked about the Cardi B comments and whether he ever hears from management about something he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m hoping they fire me,\u201d Barkley boldly stated. \u201cI got six or seven years left on my contract that they know I got no chance of doing. I would love for them to fire me and have to pay me for the next six or seven years.\u201d<\/p>\n Barkley claimed he even asks his agent about ways of getting fired so he can stop working and still be paid for his entire contract. That admission alone will probably prevent Barkley from a full payout if he ever does get fired, but that won\u2019t deter him from trying.<\/p>\n \u201cI would love to get fired, I\u2019m not gonna lie. Because there\u2019s zero chance I\u2019m gonna be working the next six or seven years, zero!\u201d Barkley continued. \u201cCome on, man. People can\u2019t take a joke? They can kiss my ass. I appreciate all the support I\u2019ve gotten all these years, but if anybody thinks everybody likes them, they\u2019re a fool. So if people don\u2019t like me or don\u2019t have a sense of humor, they can kiss my ass. My whole ass, not just one cheek. The whole ass!\u201d<\/p>\n Barkley isn\u2019t getting fired. He probably won\u2019t even retire before his contract is up. Because Barkley has been talking about retirement for nearly a decade<\/a>, and he\u2019s still here. Not only is he still working, but he has spent much of this NBA season complaining that ESPN didn\u2019t work him<\/a>\u00a0enough. As long as ESPN keeps letting Barkley make comments about curvy women, he\u2019s not going anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If anyone has an issue with Charles Barkley for getting a little overzealous about seeing Cardi B at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[67672,7,9104,2001,11805,11807],"class_list":["post-757614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-2026-nba-finals","tag-basketball","tag-cardi-b","tag-charles-barkley","tag-dan-patrick","tag-the-dan-patrick-show"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757614","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=757614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}