Former Philadelphia 76ers legend Charles Barkley retired from the NBA almost 23 years ago. Ever since then, he has been an analyst for TNT and created a reputation of being one of the most opinionated sports celebrity. Sports Illustrated has gone so far as to name him amongst the ‘Top 10 Most Influential Personalities in Sports Media’.

With so much attention, people are bound to have some haters follow in their journey. Barkley’s long existing feud with one of them recently came back in the during a lively discussion.

Using Skip Bayless, Charles Barkley explains his philosophy regarding haters

Charles Barkley recently sat down for an interview on the ‘SI Media with Jimmy Traina’ podcast. During the same, a question was raised about Barkley’s philosophy in calling out the individuals who spread all sorts of hate about him.

Barkley stated that the reason he takes a shot at his haters from time to time is owing to the fact that it gets under their skin.

Highlighting his philosophy, Barkley says that he forms a disdain towards people who go ahead and take personal shots at him. In his 23 years as a television personality, the former player has claimed that not one of his haters has come forward and said to him “Yo man, you think what I said was personal?” The 76ers holds the belief that going personal is never the right thing.

“If I criticize a guy, it’s gonna be 100 percent about basketball,” said Barkley during the interview. “You can tell when guys have a personal vendetta against a guy and Jimmy, to me, that’s not cool”.

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Using the above quote in context, Barkley brought out the name of Skip Bayless, host of ‘Undisputed’ and a prominent television personality.

“People know I don’t like Skip Bayless and I really don’t like Skip Bayless because his attacks on certain guys, they’re personal” Barkley added during the conversation. “I don’t think when you have a television show or radio show you can attack guys personally just because you don’t like them. That’s not cool, that’s not right.” added Barkley.

Offended by Barkley’s “idiot” comment, Bayless strikes back

The Charles Barkley-Skip Bayless feud has been continuing for quite some time now. Barkley’s recent comments are just the latest addition to this longstanding rivalry, in the midst of which even the word ‘kill’ has been used.

Back in the month of June, TNT was covering ‘The Match’, a golf tournament featuring celebrities from various fields. Charles Barkley was acting as a background commentator for the network. During a game, he let out a comment that indirectly referenced Skip Bayless.

“(Travis Kelce)’s the best tight end. It’s between him and Gronk as the best ever. And I don’t want to leave out Shannon Sharpe. I want one of those jobs where I can get a buyout for working with an idiot.”

Barkley’s remark was a reference to NFL star Shannon Sharpe, leaving his position as co-host on Bayless’s ‘Undisputed’. Reports claimed that Sharpe took the exit in light of his deteriorating relationship with the 71-year-old.

The words left by the NBA star did not play well for Bayless. He took to Twitter to write “Still chuckling over a clown calling me an idiot.”

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