By now you probably all have seen the video of Charles Barkley dragging the New Orleans Pelicans after their loss in the NBA Playoffs to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Barkley felt that once the series was over (as it now is) instead of sending the Pelicans to Cancun, they should go to Galveston, Texas instead.
“We’re gonna send them to Galveston, where that dirty a** water wash up on the shore, and people think they at the beach,” Barkley said.
The whole “Inside the NBA” set, especially Shaq, laughed hysterically at the comments.
Barkley would later try to come back and apologize especially to Tina Knowles, the mother of superstar Beyonce’ whose family is from the area.
Knowles said “Chuck, we don’t play about Galveston Texas,” she posted on Instagram. “You better watch it sucker! Our water might not be blue, but it is still the beach and we love it!”
Charles Barkley said the pelicans don’t deserve Cancun lmaooo 😂😂😂
Shaq: “Where they going, Chuck?”
Chuck: “Galveston. That dirty ass water. We not even gonna send them to Cancun.”
— Hater Report (@HaterReport_) April 27, 2024
“I don’t want that smoke,” Barkley said. “I don’t want the Beyhive and Jay after me.”
Chuck: "I don't want that smoke. I don't want the Beyhive and Jay after me."
Chuck apologizes to Beyonce's mom for talking about Galveston 😂 pic.twitter.com/yJicorY0dG
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) April 28, 2024
But the damage has been done and most sports fans on social media not only laughed at Barkley’s comments but agreed with him.
We really need a full size mural of Charles Barkley in Galveston. That was the most press Galveston got since the great syphilis breakout of 2013 during biker week.
— Rich O'Toole (@RichOToole) April 29, 2024
Charles Barkley is 100% correct about that “ugly ass dirty water in Galveston”. pic.twitter.com/n9UxUvtQR9
— Malcolm Bordelon (@_MalcolmB) April 27, 2024
Charles Barkley GALVESTON RANT had me in tears! 😂😂😂#NBA #funny pic.twitter.com/WFAudvaoEu
— Justin Paden (@JPFranchise57) April 29, 2024
Even the Galveston beach had something to say about Barkley’s comments.
Galveston Island clapping back at Charles Barkley’s comments about the beach 😂 @FOX26Houston pic.twitter.com/0jB84u6bfG
— Jade Flury (@jadeflury_) April 29, 2024
While most fans got a few laughs out of the comments, not everyone was happy with Barkley, especially Pels fans who thought he went too far.
Since Charles Barkley big fat ass wanted to send the Pelicans to the dirty, funky water in Galveston, I wonder if he gonna have that same energy for KD and the Suns? Let’s see if they clown the Suns like that. He not, cause that was his team, but always want to drag the Pels.😡😡 pic.twitter.com/I3pxfDxV9y
— NesTro504 (@tro504) April 29, 2024
Barkley has been known to make controversial and sometimes very funny comments which most NBA fans are used to by now, but there will always be those who will be offended by anything the former NBA star says.
