NBA legend Charles Barkley recalled a few of his greatest (and worst) moments throughout a enjoyable chat with ESPN’s Zach Lowe as a visitor of The Lowe Post podcast. The Corridor of Famer talked about the time he performed an NBA sport drunk as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers as a result of he thought he was getting traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, just for the commerce to disintegrate whereas he was within the midst of a rowdy celebration.

Transcript through Harrison Faigen of Silver Screen & Roll:

“My agent calls me one morning and he says ‘hey, you’re going to get traded to the Lakers as we speak,’” Barkley recalled. “And me and my mates, we exit and have fun and get drunk round midday…. He calls me later and says ‘hey you’ve been traded to the Lakers, they’re going to finalize the deal and I’ll get again to you.’

“I’m on cloud 9, he calls me again three hours later, it’s like 3:30 now, he says ‘the Sixers backed out of the deal.’ And I’m drunk as [bleeped expletive] and we obtained a sport that night time, and I’m like ‘what? What are you speaking about?’ And he’s like ‘the Sixers have been scared to tug the set off.’ So I’m like ‘you’re kidding me, dude we obtained a sport tonight and I’ve been ingesting since midday.’ The one factor that’s humorous, I don’t even know the way I performed that night time. I feel I might need performed so unhealthy as a result of I used to be so indignant the Sixers didn’t pull the set off, after which it’s simply struggling the subsequent two or three years.”

The final sentence is quintessential Barkley, admitting that the top of his Sixers stunt was tough. It’s robust to make out which sport he’s referring to, as he doesn’t get particular as to when this “drunk sport” happened.

Nonetheless, this all occurred in 1992, and he was traded to the Phoenix Suns the next season, so maybe he was misremembering a bit. One NBA season can really feel like two or three if he’s within the unsuitable place and might’t appear to search out his manner out. Or, perhaps, he was referring to his thought course of on the time and he was apprehensive he’d should spend a number of extra years in distress.

Barkley finally moved on and reached the NBA Finals with the Suns, enjoying towards Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in 1993. Sadly, Phoenix misplaced in six video games.