It's almost impossible to imagine the fukking stantastic gall (for Barkley or for your favorite team and therefore against anything Warrior-related) and obstinance is has to take for anyone to have an issue with Green here. He's having what almost any sane person affiliated with basketball would acknowledge as a personally great season, and he's on a team that has exceeded lofty expectations and evolved into the best team in the league so far in the season, and he's supposed to suffer lazy, personal attacks from Charles Barkley because in the 90s The Round c00n of Rebound was a better player than Green?
Charles Barkley is - and this is not hyperbole in my mind - one of the most worthless human beings on Earth relative to his prominence and platform. He is absolutely terrible at his job in every single imaginable way except being entertaining (and even in that regard, his entertainment is tied less to a dynamic, compelling personality than it is bottom-of-the-barrel minstrelsy). There is one thing in life he had a true talent for, and somehow he still can't produce any insights for his audience about the game of basketball. He recycles the same lazy, empty talking points about jumpshooting teams and size ad nauseam. He is often drunk while doing his job. He rarely seems to have paid close attention to the games he subsequently "analyzes," substituting "bold" opinions that run a very limited gamut from ad hominem attacks to jokes about cities and people who are ugly or fat or stupid. His opinions on players, strategies, and contenders betray a complete and utter lack of research, understanding, or even care for the topics. He is unprepared and ineffective at discussing basketball in any way that enlightens viewers. His only value is in generating "buzz" by feuding with current players, being "edgy" by speaking buffoonishly on social issues, or being an obese hybrid of Homer Simpson and an Amos 'n' Andy sketch who elicits guffaws from white Americans by virtue of being "so colorful."
He was my favorite player for most of my life, and it has been painful to have the cover peeled back to betray the Wizard of my personal basketball Oz is really just a jackass and degenerate who is so far removed from reality and decency that he might as well be a literal cartoon character, some morbid and horrific sort of outtake from Fat Albert who was lifted off the cutting room floor by a gust of wind and landed in hell, where Satan made him 3-dimensional and gave him a human's ability to speak, but a Cow's brain to process thought.
Not a single fukking player in the league should have any respect for Charles' opinions, work ethic (which was notoriously lacking as a player, and might even be worse as an analyst), moralizing, and certainly not his direct (and almost always unprovoked) attacks. I don't give a fukk how old or how accomplished anyone is, once he devolves into a complete doofus, hyprocrite, degenerate, and minstrel there's not a soul on Earth who should respect a fukking thing that comes out of his mouth, especially when it's inflammatory or defamatory.
fukk Charles Barkley. He's as close to a piece of shyt as a human can get. And his wife looks like a gigantic, crusty gym sock that was left balled up in a funky locker for 50 years. That he still has a job and is considered "entertaining" speaks to truths about this society that confirm my worst suspicions of it.