“Chicken Williams, Sweet Lou Wings”: Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal Have Choice Nicknames for Clippers’ Lou Williams

The NBA community is still not over the fact that LA Clippers star Lou Williams really visited a gentleman’s club during his exit period from the bubble. Williams visited ‘Magic City’ in Atlanta when he initially came out of the bubble to attend to family matters. Since the whole issue blew up, Williams saw himself mocked by ‘Inside the NBA’ guys. 

Recently, Williams was subjected to a lot of memes on the internet due to his actions. He spontaneously responded to Kendrick Perkins’ comments about him over the matter. However, the Inside guys could not refrain from taking a dig at Williams for his irresponsible act. 

Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley poke fun at Lou Williams

Along with the NBA’s restart, we were blessed with an episode of ‘Inside the NBA.’ This time the crew came into the studio and engaged in a socially distanced episode. However, this didn’t affect Charles Barkley or Shaq from being themselves on the show. 

As the crew looked through the highlights of the Lakers vs Clippers game, they brought up Lou Williams at one point during the highlight reel. Though Lou didn’t play last night, Chuck and Shaq did bring him up in the conversation. 

The Lou jokes came in when the retired NBA players were discussing the weakness in the Clippers when neither Paul George nor Kawhi Leonard was on the court. When these two didn’t play their team looked weak and exposed.  

“When the Clippers got going, and they took Kawhi Leonard and Paul George out of the game, that’s when they really missed chicken wings,” Barkley said, talking about Lou Williams. Shaq then got in on it and these two then developed new nicknames for the Clippers’ veteran guard. 

“That’s his new nickname Chuck?” a giggling Shaq asked Charles Barkley. “Chicken Williams,” Barkley chuckled. It didn’t stop there. “qu” Chuck said, after several attempts at forming a new nickname. 

But, the crew mentioned that everything is uttered on a light note and nothing personal. Lou Williams is a tremendous player who has been with the Clippers since 2017. However, the 33-year-old’s actions led to a 10-day quarantine period which caused him to miss the crucial Laker game. If Williams was on the line-up could he have made a difference? 

SOURCE: NBA on TNT