NB Barkley calls Obama "articulate".
1: Because--wait for it--he is articulate.
Barkley has a schtick, and he wears it to the absolute bone, but somehow it works. I still laugh when when I see the new Verizon commercial. ("I don't want to look fat in High-Def.")
Bibby traded to ATL for Shelden Williams and junk, btw. (I guess I could have just said "for junk.") Wow.
The Hawks should trade for Obama. What do they have to lose?
I take that back, the Hawks are too dangerously black-associated. The Jazz should trade for Obama.
He lets us conservative Jews off the hook, which is nice.
7: He figures you've suffered enough already, what with having to put up with Krauthammer and Kristol.
The Hawks should trade for Obama. What do they have to lose?
I can see it now: Obama endorses inviting China and India into the G-8 so that they can play 5-on-5 at the G-10 Summit.
OBAMA: "Hey Harper, you're the host, so I get first pick. I take Putin."
HARPER: "No fair. You and Putin have to be captains, otherwise it's no fun."
PUTIN: [as Gordon Brown inches forward and tries to make himself more noticeable] "I take Sarkozy."
BROWN: [under his breath] "Dammit."
PRODI: "Sorry, Angela, we are shirts, you need to skin off."
I'm pretty stoked that he announced his candidacy for Alabama governor in 2014. He might have trouble securing the Fake Christian vote, though....
he's been a republican and now is a democrat
i wouldn't trust him, a two-camper
well i don't know who he is and really don't care about american politics of course
Charles Barkley, still the best.
White people like Charles Barkley.
White people like Charles Barkley.
That's just because he had a lot of assists for a power forward.
14: A Duke basketball fanatic with no educational, familial or geographical attachment to the school recently explained to me that her attachment was the result of her parents being Celtic fans so she grew up watching Larry Bird and Kevin McHale and "that style of basketball", and Duke was the only college team that still played "that style".
The caption got me a little confused: "BARKLEY BLASTS REPUBLICANS supporting Barack Obama". What? Not an exclusive enough club for you, Chuck?
Duke was the only college team that still played "that style"
What? Carolina has a white guy that starts too.
Charles Barkley seems to be getting a little chunky.
(It's delightful to hear him say that every time he hears the word conservative it makes him sick. Finally!)
Wolf Blitzer, defending the Christians. What a dick.
#13 - anybody see the "Charles Barkley meets Bjork" skit on Saturday Night Live a couple months back? Laff riot.
Every time he hears "conservative" he gets sick -- right on, Chuck! Just great.
Charles Barkley seems to be getting a little chunky.
This is a recurring gag on TNT's "Inside the NBA," which is a remarkably amusing show even for a non-basketball fan like me.
OK, just got peer pressured into going to a party, where I will not have fun, because I suck.
#13 - anybody see the "Charles Barkley meets Bjork" skit on Saturday Night Live a couple months back? Laff riot.
I just endured about a minute and a half of it and it was awful. Banned.
BTW, where's the "best power forward of all time" fight that should be brewing in this thread?
Should Duncan be considered a power forward, or more of a center? In any case, Barkley and Malone are contenders for the top spot.
A minister (from a librul denomination) I met last night, on the Southern Baptists, of which he used to be one: "You know, the whole state of Texas left at one point. I tried to tell my friends 'When Texas calls, and says "You're too conservative", you might want to see if there's a problem.'"
It's often hard to analyze this stuff from my vantage point here in the last redoubt of Progressivism, but I wonder if there might be more space opening up for exactly the type of critique that Charles Barkley is making here. Certainly it's the line that most of the Xtians in my family have taken for awhile now, but there seems to be a lot of potential for things coming to a flashpoint and the discourse really shifting. I dunno, I'll defer to those of you in the Bible Belt before getting my hopes up.
In any case, Barkley and Malone are contenders for the top spot.
With great sadness, I note that Duncan's competition for the top spot is probably McHale or, depending on how he's classified, Bird.
At least some experts rate Malone and Barkley higher. McHale's probably the best proxy for Duncan in playing style (low post moves, outside shot, good post defender), while Malone and Barkely feel like hybrid 3/4s. (with Barkely more 3 like).
I find evaluating players across NBA eras really difficult. Duncan is clearly better than McHale, but how does one compare McHale on the Celtics with Malone out there on his own as a scoring option in a weaker league? How good, e.g., was James Worthy? How would he have done as a #1 option, a la Vince Carter? Would Richard Jefferson have looked as good with Magic, or is that heresy?
I find evaluating players across NBA eras really difficult.
Yeah, and as evidence, I don't think it's clear that Duncan is superior to McHale. I think that case depends on Duncan's defensive prowess, and I have trouble evaluating big man defense that isn't dependent on the spectacular. I'd take McHale on offense over Duncan; McHale had that weird awkward athleticism that we see in "Euros" like Nowitski and Ginobilli and that NBA players seem to find so befuddling.
You guys do know that there's a Charles Barkley JRPG, don't you?
Power forward is an illegitimate position. Basketball should be 4-on-4.
while Malone and Barkely feel like hybrid 3/4s.
Karl Malone as a 3? I don't recall him ever playing that position. How many 3 pointers did he hit his entire carreer?
At one point Barkley had the best stats and rating of any of his contemporaries at the position, while also being something like 4-6" shorter AND 30-50 lbs. heavier than any of them. There must have been something unique about the way he played. (Probably just leaning on people more, and taking fullest advantage of slackened enforcement of the rules on contact).
Back when I was a boy they called fouls even for touches with the hand.