Charles Barkley may have recently had his hip replaced but he hasn't let a little procedure slow him down. Well, slow his mouth down at least.
Sir Charles joined the 94 WIP morning show on Friday to chat with his old pal Howard Eskin.
The worst part about the hip replacement and need to use a walker for about six weeks?
“I can’t put my foot up your [butt] like I want to," Barkley told Eskin.
Their conversation was wide ranging: Olympics basketball, Cowboys RB Zeke Elliott being photographed in a marijuana shop in Seattle, his new show on TNT show "The Race Card," and anything else that came into his head.
They started off talking about Team USA and their gold medal in Rio. Sir Charles thinks they need more role players on that type of team.
"I thought they had too many ball-dominant guys. You need role players for that team to flow freely," Barkley said, pointing to DeAndre Jordan as one of the few guys on the team who played his role nicely without needing the ball.
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Barkley would also love to see young players like Ben Simmons or even Nerlens Noel in the Olympics to make them more watchable.
Perhaps the funniest line of the interview came up when talking about Zeke Elliot being in a marijuana shop in Seattle where such a store is legal.
“That’s just stupid,” Barkley said.
“Come on, man. You gotta be smarter than that. I’m not a marijuana guy. I smoked pot like five times in my life. All it made me want to do was eat potato chips. It was like a waste of my time. I didn’t feel no euphoria it didn’t take me to no special place. I just said, ‘do we have any more potato chips in the state of Alabama or Pennsylvania.’”
The two briefly mentioned Barkley's new show on TNT which will focus a lot on race relations.
“Cops have made some mistakes but we need the cops," Charles said. "We as black people need to do a much better job at policing ourselves. It’s not like it’s a right or wrong answer, there are a lot of layers.”
It's interesting to hear Barkley talk about a nuanced issue. You don't typically hear Sir Charles consider things with more than an instant response.
And, finally, the interview ended with Chuck saying something we can all agree on after learning Eskin was flying out to Indiana for an Eagles preseason football game.
“Preseason football may be the greatest scam in the world today. What a waste of time.”
Yep.
Check out the podcast of Barkley's interview here.
