Charles Barkley plans to skip All-Star Game in ‘rat-infested’ San Francisco

Charles Barkley ravaged the city of San Francisco on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” Thursday night.

The basketball legend took his chance at City by the Bay while discussing Pistons star Cade Cunningham’s chances of making his first all-star team when the game takes place at Chase Center in February.

“Listen, he’s going to be in the All-Star Game,” Barkley said of Cunningham. “I’m not going. I’m not going to that rat-infested place in San Francisco.

His TNT colleague Kenny Smith defended the city, calling San Francisco “beautiful,” which only further alienated Barkley.

“San Francisco is not a beautiful city! » he said. “Rats. Cats… You won’t make me love San Francisco. No, no, no, no.

Barkley has a long-standing vendetta against San Francisco.

During last year’s All-Star festivities in Indiana, Barkley coached San Francisco when Draymond Green suggested to Reggie Miller on the broadcast that they never have another All-Star game in Indiana again .

“Hey Reggie,” Barkley said. “If you had the chance to be out in the cold or around a bunch of homeless crooks in San Francisco, which would you choose? You can’t even walk there.

This time, Green sided with the pro-SF side by saying “yes, you can walk around”, to which Barkley replied “yeah, with a bulletproof vest”.

And it wasn’t the only other time.

During the 2022 Western Conference Finals between the Warriors and Mavericks, Barkley once again went on a rampage in San Francisco after leaking the roof of the American Airlines Center in Dallas.

“The bad thing about all this rain is it doesn’t rain in San Francisco to clean these dirty streets they have there,” Barkley said. “San Francisco, it’s a great city, but all this dirt and homeless people, you have to clean them all off the streets.”