There’s a reason Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley sit on opposite ends of the table.
After the Cavs’ 122-99 Game 4 win over the Celtics, Shaq and Sir Charles got into it on live TV over seemingly nothing.
https://youtu.be/VMaUoES-XZ0
Shaq: “Chuck, you have no idea what what we’re talking about because you’ve only been to the Finals once.”
Barkley: “I wasn’t riding on Dwyane Wade and Kobe’s coattails.”
Shaq: “It doesn’t matter. I got the same thing you got, and I passed you up 10 years ago.”
Barkley: “If I had been riding on Kobe’s coattails, Dwyane Wade’s, Alonzo Mourning’s, Rick Fox.”
Shaq: “People question why you’re in the Hall of Fame anyway, bum.”
And it continued from there.
Things first appeared to get chippy during a commercial break, when Shaq started to film Barkley on Instagram.
Shaq remarked, “We just watching you eat, fat boy” to a clearly perturbed Barkley.
https://youtu.be/QgJZZ3OEOlk
This certainly wasn’t the first time Shaq and Charles went at it on Inside the NBA.
https://youtu.be/7bBsCza_Hfk
Kenny Smith, for what it’s worth, thinks Shaq would destroy Barkley in a real fight.
