Reuters And you thought David Stern had to get used to Mark Cuban… imagine Charles Barkley, NBA owner.
The Round Mound of Rebound and current analyst for TNT spoke on a conference call to promote the American Century Championship golf tournament — right here on NBC July 15-17 — and was asked about the potential sale of the Sixers (one of his former teams).
While most Sixers fans see the sale as a good thing — Ed Snider cares deeply about the Flyers, the Sixers sometimes feel like an afterthought — Barkley said it’s not as important as the players and coaches.
Then he said he wanted to be part of an ownership group someday.
“I have been asked but I haven’t found one I wanted to do…” Barkley said. “I don’t have enough money to be like a Michael (Jordan, owner of the Charlotte Bobcats) and take complete control of an organization. But it would be fun to, like whether it was in Philadelphia or Phoenix, to put a few million dollars in and be not a speaking owner but just a fun, good investment.”
He said he has not been asked to be part of the new group looking to buy the Sixers
And if you think Barkley could be a non-speaking owner, well, you probably still believe in the tooth fairy. Barkley couldn’t be a non-speaking anything. Not in his DNA.
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- kingdavid919 - Jun 12, 2011 at 4:17 PM
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This goes back to the song: I wanna be like Mike! If I could be like Mike! lol
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- seanb20124 - Jun 12, 2011 at 4:57 PM
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I thought he wanted to be the republican governor of Alabama??
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- LPad - Jun 12, 2011 at 7:33 PM
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not sure if he is a republican. seem to remember him telling Kenny on the air that the tax breaks were a bad idea when GW was running for office.
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- davidly - Jun 12, 2011 at 7:38 PM
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I don’t know what he is, or considers himself, now. But back in the nineties, he was calling himself a Republican and wanted to be Gov of Alabama.
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- davidly - Jun 12, 2011 at 7:40 PM
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I predict three things: He will have his team; it will eventually have LeBron James on it; wresting will be involved.
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- goforthanddie - Jun 12, 2011 at 8:04 PM
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Charles and Shaq should go in together. As long as someone else ran it…
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- readysethike - Jun 12, 2011 at 9:28 PM
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He doesnt have the money…he waste it all on gambling
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- downtowndanny - Jun 13, 2011 at 2:25 AM
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MJ can afford a team because he has the hottest sneakers in the game, his retro releases alone probably bought the Bobcats.
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- grizz2202 - Jun 14, 2011 at 1:13 PM
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Wait, what? There’s no tooth fairy???
