Hall of Famer Charles Barkley provided some insight on his last conversation with basketball icon Michael Jordan.
The always outspoken broadcaster revealed that the last time Jordan spoke to her was via a profanity-laden phone call.
The pair broke up in 2012 over comments made by Barkley. He criticized Jordan’s performance As a team executive.
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Charles Barkley attends the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on November 20, 2021 in Las Vegas.
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“I said, ‘Listen, the hardest thing about Michael, he has to have better people around him.’ Because the hardest thing, when you’re famous, is they’re on your private jet. You’re buying all the drinks. You’re buying all the dinners. Very few people are going to be honest with you,'” Barkley recalled. November “Let’s Go!” accompanying podcast tom brady and Jim Gray.
Barkley has previously mentioned that he hasn’t spoken to Jordan in nearly a decade.
Barkley sat down with East on Thursday nba player Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes for an episode of “All the Smoke” on Showtime. During the interview, Barnes explained Barkley and Jordan’s strained relationship.
“You and MJ were really close and haven’t spoken in a while. Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Do you think you guys can fix this?” Barnes asked.
Charles Barkley (34) of the Phoenix Suns talks with Michael Jordan (23) of the Chicago Bulls during Game 5 of the 1993 NBA Finals at Chicago Stadium on June 18, 1993 in Chicago.
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while barclay lives jordan buffHe said that a possible future friendship was not up to him.
“That’ll be at the end of it, Matt,” Barkley said. “He was my best friend at the time, and I love and miss that guy, but I have to do my job.”
Barkley reiterated his earlier comments about his belief that Jordan surrounded himself with too many people who were too afraid to say no to him.
Barkley said, “He was struggling to be a general manager or run a team, and I said, ‘I don’t know if he’s ever going to make it, because the people around him are going to say never. ‘”
Charles Barkley of the team’s 75th anniversary is introduced during the 2022 NBA All-Star Game at Rockets Mortgage Fieldhouse on February 20, 2022 in Cleveland.
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Barkley said his comments didn’t go down well with Jordan.
“He went ballistic,” Barkley said. “And he called me, and the last thing I heard was ‘M—- f— you! You gotta be my boy.'”
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Barkley defended his comments by saying that he was only doing his job.
“And I said, ‘Man, I have to do my job.’ And we haven’t spoken since that night, and that was probably ten years ago.”