Charles Barkley Once Confessed How Spitting on a Little Girl Made Him Re-Think His NBA Career: “It Was Just Stupid”

Charles Barkley might have been one of the greatest power forwards of all time but he did not enjoy the same success outside the court. Barkley was embroiled in a number of controversies and he has a very outspoken personality. This helped in creating a number of unfortunate incidents with fans and hecklers.

In fact, Barkley was famous for his infamous “I’m not a role model” commercial. He said he is not a role model and he is not paid to be one, but to play basketball. Barkley and NIKE received a lot of backlash for this commercial. And then was that spitting incident which involved an 8-year-old girl.

When addressing the incident, Barkley just says “I was trying to spit on anybody, to be honest with you but It was just stupid“. This was the biggest incident that affected Charles throughout his NBA Career

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“I was angry,” says Charles Barkley

He adds ” When I first got into the NBA, I was angry… I’m gonna stick it to Miss Gomez, I’m gonna stick it to my dad, I’m gonna stick it to my high school. I’m gonna stick to everybody and shove it to their face,” 

He says he had the same attitude until his first three or four years. But the spitting incident happened, he changed himself. He says, “When the spitting incident happened… I remember sitting in a hotel room and I was like dude what the hell is wrong with you? What are you so angry about?”

He then realized that he was being angry at others for his mistakes. From that point on, he decided that he was not gonna be mad at anybody and he should show people his talent. Barkley says this was his turning point in his career. He adds that players like Mike Tyson and Dennis Rodman played like he did, with an edge. He adds in sports, it’s not a matter of if you go over the edge, its the matter of when.

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