Charles Barkley Digs Deep On Never Winning A Championship | The Pivot Podcast Clips 

People underestimate how undersized Charles was for his position, the man is as tall as an average shooting guard and was still killing on the paint

Chuck may not be an NBA Champion, but he is a Champion at Life.

Barkley is 6’5 at best playing power forward in the NBA when 7’0 centers dominated the paint. He should be celebrated as one of the greatest over achievers in sports history.

A man who understands gratitude. He has more to be thankful for

For me, Charles is one of the BEST players who ever played the game, doesn't matter if he didn't win any championship. He had the HEART of a champion. And in life you can't always get what you want.👍👍👍

He also won league MVP, Charles was for real

Chuck’s a real one. Always straight.

The disrespect to Chuck is crazy. The guy was one of the best players in the world in his prime. He deserves to be remembered and respected for that.

I’m glad he was honest, salute to Barkley

For some context and perspective, that 93 Suns team was one of the greatest NBA teams to never win a championship. They lost to prime MJ’s Bulls in 6 games. Dropped the first 2 at home, but from games 3-6, they played every bit as well as the Bulls, for the most part. They also won they’re 2 games IN Chicago and came within a last second John Paxson 3 from sending it to a game 7 at home. Barkley’s not cappin. He really did have a chance to beat MJ in his prime for the championship.

I eat at McDonald`s that`s the closest I came ! gotta love Barkley ... I was lucky enough to watch his whole career, and let me say he was a beast and unstoppable most of the time, best of all he was colorful !!!

As a Celtic fan, Sir Charles was a pain. He was a great player and a great competitor. Championships ARE a team effort. He is 💯

When you can sleep at night, you have found peace with your life. Charles got nothing to be ashamed of for not winning "a title".

Chuck’s approach to life is inspiring and even more - realistic. All todays talk about chasing dreams and collecting accomplishments sets a lot of people to unrealistic expectations and when life hits them, they realize all they had is a pursuit for a prize, that they thought would make them feel special.

He’s so humble he didn’t even mention his MVP over mj

Chucks rings are on the water of basketball and they grow further and wider than almost anyone in the modern game, championship or not. He is one of the sports premier cultural icons.

Chuck is right. I'm a Broncos fan. Elway struggled with that team until they finally knocked out that back to back. Players don't stick with franchises anymore. They jump ship to chase a ring.

Chuck, you're a hero to me & many others, I grew up watching ABA/NBA starting 1975 when I was a wee lad and followed Dr J, then you. you rock. you did give it 110%. awesome.

My favorite player of all time. He's saying 6'5...yeah with sneakers!. He's a 6'4 totally dominant power forward. First interview that he's been honest about the retrospect of his career with a no bullshit robotic answer.

The Bulls won 6 championships in the 90s. imagine that, one team winning 6 in a decade. Before that, it was LA, Boston, Detroit. After the Bulls, a few more teams out of the many won the championship (Spurs, Lakers, Detroit, Dallas, etc.). It is hard to win in the NBA. Pound for pound Charles was one of the greatest.

Only kids will slander this man. I was in 2nd Grade when they formed the Dream Team and for me, HE OUTSHINED ALL OF EM GREATS.

I’m definitely with Charles on this over these stupid analyst and deranged fan base!its a team sport, and a lot has to go with your situations!!

you can tell the realness when he says he gave it his best

Most of my favorite players belong to this latest generation (Curry, Lebron, Giannis, Kawhi). However, there are some from the past that I believe are the most inspirational players of all times: Barkley was definitely one of them. I used to love when his games came on t.v.. It was amazing to watch someone who figured out that being undersized in a sport could be compensated for with strength and determination.

When I hear people ranking baseball players I never hear them talk about how many Championships they won. Players like Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr, Ted Williams, Ernie Banks are just a few HOF's that have never won a Championship. Also, current Players like Mike Trout and Bryce Harper have yet to win one. Yet their lack of Championships are never brought up. Baseball players get off easy in that regards.

Charles Barkley is one of the greatest players ever!!! He doesn’t need a ring to solidly his greatness. Same for Chris Paul

I’ve gone back and watched Barkley’s highlights, that man could play! Obviously incredible rebounder and scorer, but also an underrated passer and pass interceptor. One of the best, if not the best, to never win a ring.

We could all learn alot from Barkley. Such a great guy.

He wasn’t able to ride Kobe’s and Dwyane Wade’s coattails like Shaq did to four championships.

young bloods nowadays don't realise how badass chuck was back in those days. undersize yet still can.solidify his place in the paint. for anybody to take mvp from MJ the goat, he is LEGIT

All-time no ring squad: PG: CP3, Stockton, Nash SG: Iverson, Gervin, Harden C: Ewing, Lanier SF: Baylor, Wilkins PF: Barkley, Malone Injury Reserves: Westbrook, G. Hill, D. Thompson, T-Mac

Sir Charles was a great player and is an even better person, a role model if he likes it or not.

Kenny made a good point about Chuck and his skills. He was that dominant that the nba instituted a 5 seconds back to basket rule.

I’m glad Chuck called Shaq out on this

I always wonder what 1993 would’ve been like if they won one of those first two home games and the series was tied 1-1z I’m sure going down 3-1 was a mental block that the Suns couldn’t get passed, even after winning Game 5

"Charles Barkley Digs Deep On Never Winning A Championship" and Shaq never lets him forget it either! "How many rings you got Chuck?".....

In team sports, your GM or owner had to be all in back in the 90s... After Shaq, Kobe and Lakers struggled until the GM made the move for Gosal and role players. Then you have the "players" making Dream Teams telling GMs to go sign those guys. Team game back in the 90s and early 2000s. Today its much different!

this why i've always loved chuck

I think Charles was on some really great teams! And I do think he gave it all he had to get the championship. He had some great points about how far he went from how he was recruited out of High School. His career was one of the very best looking at his stats. Jordan's teams, the Pistons, Boston, and the Lakers were hard to top for Sir Charles.

He ain’t lying he gave it all he had day in and day out.

I love chuck and really enjoyed rooting agaInst him in the 80s growing up in Boston. He’s the best sports personality out there

Charles was a fucking beast. Top 3 power forwards ever imo.

barkley was the 2nd best player in the world for about half a decade. maybe more.

Charles Barkley: It's raining Shaq: I have 4 rings

During both of the Bull's threepeats the team averaged around 100+ PPG while MJ averaged around 30+. That means he contributed, on average, only 30% of the total points every time they played. Gives you an idea how much of a team sport this is.

Championships certainly do matter, but the absence of one shouldn’t discredit how spectacular a player was individually.

This was a great interview

7 Players with 20000 points, 10000 rebounds and 4000 assists: Abdul-Jabbar, Barkley, Chamberlain, Duncan, Garnett, LeBron, Karl Malone

Shaq & Kenny were all American McDonald's team, & I'm like, I ate at McDonald's😂🤣😂

My All time favorite PF . Chuck is a Legend. 💪

Basketball is a team sport also a sport you have to set aside egos and sacrifice etc if your not willing to do that you will never win a championship Charles Barkely was a great individual player one of the best to do it and a hell of a basketball analyst much respect.

PREACH. He's one of the best to EVER play the game. That's all you need.

People call Shaq a freak of nature. And I respect Shaq. But everyone expected Shaq to do what he did. Nobody expected Charles. He's another freak of nature that is harder to explain. I LOVED Charles game.

One of the greatest PF of all Time. Super nice Guy.

To win a championship you need to play for a championship organization. It's not an individual accomplishment. Anyone who judges individual players by their number of championships just doesn't understand basketball. The goat player argument is ridiculous. People should be debating what's the goat team.

Allen Iverson never won a championship either. Chuck is right, it's not an individual sport!

Bunch of people out there walking around with chips that no one remembers. History will remember Barkley

Along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Karl Malone, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, Barkley is actually one of six players in NBA history to have compiled at least 20,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 4,000 assists.

Imagine if Charles Barkley played with the Utah Jazz .

It always angered me when people (including MJ, Shaq, Kenny Smith, etc) said that Barkley didn't know what it takes to win. The dude won more than just about anyone else during his run in the NBA. He had several legitimate shots to win a championship and fell just short. The man took the greatest Bulls team of all time to 6 games, and that series could have easily gone to 7 games. Do competitors, and fans realize that there will always be someone that loses in order for winning to matter? Every great player who has ever played the game has lost at some point. The vast majority lose far more than they win. Guys like MJ, Kobe, Wilt, Kareem, Magic, Bird, and even Bill Russel (the one guy that won more than he lost) have all lost on the biggest stage, or not even made it to the big stage in some seasons.

THIS PODCAST IS BETTER THAN FULLSEND/NELK ALL DAYYYYY

Charles has a great perspective onnlife. I'd love to spend a day with him picking his brain fr.

King.

Shaq and others all put it over his head. He needed the people around him just the others had. He’s still a legend!

Championship or no Championship, he's still a all time great

If Chuck had gone to LA like intended, he would’ve had at least 2-3 rings. He just needed a couple other good players

I like his answer.

Chuck was the best player on the 92 Dream Team. Check the stats.

Shaq always brings that up to Chuck.

Look what happened when they put Barkley in the olympics who is the MvP. Bam

In Philly he was drafted to a squad that had Dr J, Moses Malone, Andrew Toney and Maurice Cheeks, I know Chuck likes to believe these guys were old, but the team made the Conference Finals that year and the only guy that was old was Dr J at 34, the rest were under 30 in the prime of their careers. Next year they won 2 less games and lost Game 7 versus a Bucks team that they swept last year. This year Toney got injured for nearly the whole year, but Chuck made a leap, except in that Game 7 he goaltended in the last 40 seconds of the game. In 1987 Moses was traded and they only won 45 games and lost in the first round to the Bucks in Game 5, in that game Chuck only had 12 points on 5-16 shooting, 13 rebounds, but also 4 turnovers. Choked it whilst Dr J still outperformed Chuck. Next year Dr J retired and they didn't even make the playoffs. At this point the team was just Chuck, Cheeks and Toney left. A new addition was Cliff Robinson who put up 19 ppg. In 1989, they won 46 games and got swept by the Knicks. In 1990 it was just Chuck left from the old guard, only noteworthy player was Hershey Hawkins and maybe Rick Mahorn, whatever they got gentleman swept by the Bulls two years in a row. The next year they missed the playoffs and Barkley left. We know what happened with the Suns in 1993, he had a Finals ready team, but he was ducked Jordan by going to the West coast, well he couldn't duck him in the Finals and the Suns got torched by Jordan. He spent 3 more years with the Suns and never made it that far again. Game 7 loss to Hakeem's Rockets where Chuck couldn't stop chucking and went 2-7 from 3. Next year another Game 7 loss to Hakeem where Chuck had another below average game and his team only lost by 1. If he showed up, they could have won. Then he joined the team that beat him twice in a row, the Rockets and formed a big 3 superteam first with Drexler and Hakeem, then Hakeem and Pippen. And that didn't work either. Chuck needs to watch his mouth, he had help, he just wasn't clutch when it mattered most.

1:21 charles just broke me here

people forget that this man was the best player on the dream team

Love it

waiting for Shaq to come thru the door and boasts about his 4 rings

“They don’t call me Championship Chuck” Hey what’s happening CC

0:11 shaq

This series was winnable. Going down 0-2, damn! But then regaining home court by winning 2 out of 3 in Chicago, which was NOT a small feat. Two of those opening 3 losses actually they had a good chance to win, but game 6 really stings. That 4th quarter, last few dumbass possessions, letting MJ cut it to 2 with an easy coast to coast, then Majerle bricking an easy open shot to go up 4, letting Mj get a head full of steam and the ball roll to an open Paxson, and then mess up your final shot. What a dumbass way to lose. They also lost two game 7s in a row to the Rockets next 2 seasons, so Chuck has a lot to be pissed off about, because he couldve been a 3-time champ if some shots fell different way!

The funny thing for me is people nowadays talking down on chuck when he’s one of the best players ever, but he’d be even more dominate in today’s game. He played (at 6-5) in the golden era of centers, where every team had two big men on the court, and the game was played inside-out. He’d be even more of a problem now on offense and defense

Mannnnnn kids LISTEN!!! Back in them days was MY childhood and Barkley was legit a SUPERSTAR!!! All commercials! All over ESPN!!! SNEAKERS!! (CLASSICS)!

People always pick on him about not winning a championship 🤣🤣🤣

The Dan Marino of basketball

Chuck is right. A player shouldn't get knocked on not winning a championship. It's never the fault of the star player only for not winning.

Everytime Shaq says "How many rings I got, Chuck?" I start thinking a once in a lifetime player like Shaq should've gotten at least 5 more rings. Oh and if Robert Horry is a better player than Chuck just because of all his rings, then I guess he would've led the Suns to a championship in '93 🙄🤣

I respect that Charles says what he say because everybody look at Michael Jordan winning six championships like it was 101 and like it wasn't a team accomplishment only thing you can control is your individual stats and your individual achievements to good compare players from other players

This man is still top 20 Without wining one chompion chip This is tell u how great he is

Two Olympic golds.

Chuck played in the unfortunate era of MJ and the Bulls. Like he says often "If I played today I'd show up to he game in a spaceship" and he ain't wrong.

Anytime anyone brings up a championship to bring you down, just throw the dream team at them. No one will remember a random squad player that won the 03’ season but we will remember the dream team forever!

Basketball is a team sport

he played post salary cap, the 90's were a stradegy dominated league; Phil Jackson, Rudy and Popavich owned the league. No one noticed this, but if they hadn't installed a salary cap pat riley would have turned new york into showtime on broadway.

I agree with him on Matthew Stafford 🤣 dude got a ring on a stacked team. Win in Detroit than you something.

I always wished that Charles and Dominique Wilkins would pair up. They were missing each other when it came to going all the way in the Playoffs.

The round mound

Exactly… Charles had no one, if he had the right teammates he would have a chip for sure.

He is the only one who got 3 hall of fame induction...

I lone Chuck my favorite pf of all time

I agree u don't play Sports forever

I think his tv persona makes people forget how BAD this man was in his prime. Literally the prototype for every point forward who followed.

Charles Barkley's greatest sin as a player was daring to be drafted in the same class as MJ.