Charles Barkley has hope for town of San Francisco after saying throughout the NBA All-Star Recreation broadcast that he met with Mayor Daniel Lurie.
The town was the host for the 2025 NBA All-Star Recreation. Barkley had been on town’s case due to its crime and homeless inhabitants. In the course of the broadcast, he expressed some optimism that town would begin cleansing up.
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Chuck’s World Stars normal supervisor Charles Barkley appears on throughout introductions earlier than the 2025 NBA All Star Recreation at Chase Heart in San Francisco on Feb. 16, 2025. (Cary Edmondson-Imagn Pictures)
“Shoutout to the individuals of San Francisco, particularly the mayor. I met the mayor a pair instances. He’s been super, and hopefully we are able to do one thing in regards to the homeless inhabitants,” Barkley stated throughout a sport between Group Shaquille O’Neal and Group Candace Parker.
Barkley stated final month he would skip going to the sport as a result of it was in San Francisco.
“He’s going to make the All-Star Group,” Barkley stated on the time. “I’m not going. I’m not going to that rat-infested place out in San Francisco.”
Barkley responded to certainly one of his colleagues calling San Francisco “stunning.”
“San Francisco will not be a fantastic metropolis. Rats. Cats. Y’all will not be gonna make me like San Francisco. No. Nope, nope, nope”
From left to proper, Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley stand at mid-court to be honored throughout the NBA All-Star basketball sport on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025 in San Francisco. (AP Picture/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
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Nevertheless, it was removed from the primary time he had criticized San Francisco. Final yr, he ripped town throughout the NBA’s different broadcast of the All-Star Recreation, which came about in Indianapolis.
Barkley requested Reggie Miller which he would select: enjoying within the chilly in Indianapolis – the place Miller spent his complete 18-year NBA profession – or “being round a bunch of homeless crooks in San Francisco.”
Golden State Warriors star Draymond Inexperienced referred to as Barkley “loopy” and stated that Barkley was not “welcome” within the metropolis. Parker stated, “we love San Francisco,” however Barkley provided a retort.
“No we don’t,” he stated. “… You possibly can’t even stroll round down there.”
He later recommended you would stroll across the metropolis with a “bulletproof vest.”
Then-Tremendous Bowl 50 Host Committee Chairman Daniel Lurie speaks throughout the Tremendous Bowl 50 host committee press convention on the Moscone Heart in San Francisco on Feb. 1, 2016. (Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports activities)
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Lurie has vowed to make San Francisco’s streets protected once more, construct “sufficient housing to show round our affordability disaster” and deal with “our drug and behavioral well being disaster.”
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