Charles Barkley on Ben Simmons, Zion’s Flaws, the Center Revolution, Adam Silver, and the Nets vs. the Lakers

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by NBA legend and analyst Charles Barkley to discuss Draymond Green's comments on the Cavaliers and Andre Drummond, Barkley getting traded to the Suns in 1992, learning from Moses Malone, NBA title contenders in the East, Zion Williamson, how the Nets match up with the Lakers, whether there should an NBA All-Star Game this year, the Olympics, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.5	Charles Barkley, he hasn't been on in a long time. I don't know what took what took so long for me
0:51.8	to invite him, but I'm glad he was here. It's a great conversation. We hit just about every NBA
0:57.1	topic imaginable. It's on next first. Pearl Jam.
1:20.1	All right, the pride of leads Alabama is here. Charles Barkley. Good to see you. You look happy and
1:25.2	healthy. I'm happy and healthy. Man, thanks for having me. Lots of basketball stuff going on.
1:30.8	Let's start here. This is fresh. This is hot off the press. Dream on green last night.
1:36.5	Did this whole rant about the Cavaliers, basically not resting on Drake Drummond as much as
1:44.4	just not playing them until they figure out a trade for him. And he was working out for the game
1:48.0	that he goes in the back. And Dream on did this whole double standard thing about
1:51.2	organizations. They were much best for them, but then when a player does what's best for the player,
1:56.2	everyone gets mad at the player. Why do we have this double standard? Did you follow that? What did
2:00.4	you think of that whole rant? Well, I think Dream on has to really be careful. All that stuff is cute
2:06.7	when you're winning. But when you're in last place, it's annoying. They're trying to protect their
2:13.0	asset and they're going to trade him. So you don't want a guy making 30 million dollars on your cap
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