Charles Barkley has become the most famous NBA commenter in history for one simple reason — he says what’s on his mind without checking with his mind if he should really be saying it. Yeah, it gets him in trouble sometimes, but more often than not, what comes out is hilarious, insightful or some combination of both.
Furthermore, because of his friendship with the greatest to ever do it — Michael Jordan, no doy — Barkley’s commentary on MJ is especially incisive. So when the Chuckster got to talking to Dan LeBatard about Jordan’s latest Hanes commercial, you knew something good was going to happen. From a transcription by Sports Radio Interviews:
“I have got to admit when I saw that commercial I had to take a double take… That is one of the stupidest things that I have seen in a long time. First of all, I can’t believe that they let that commercial get on the air like that.
“Well, first of all I would never shave my mustache like that. I mean I have got to admit that I don’t know what the hell he was thinking and I don’t know what Hanes was thinking. I mean it is just stupid, it is just bad, plain and simple.” – Read full article…
