Charles Barkley Is So Done With The Pelicans He Says They Don't Deserve Cancun, Tells Them To Go To Galveston
The New Orleans Pelicans are on the cusp of starting their summer as they trail the Oklahoma City Thunder 3-0 in their opening-round series and TNT analyst and NBA great Charles Barkley has had about enough of them.
In fact, he's so disgusted that he said the team doesn't even deserve an offseason trip to Cancun and that instead, they were more cut out for the dirty waters of Galveston, Texas.
His words, not mine. Love ya, Galveston… I've never been there, but I just don't need the angry tweets…
The TNT gang was discussing the Pelicans-Thunder series when Barkley told New Orleans where they could vacation.
"I'm disappointed in New Orleans," Shaq said. "Where they going, Chuck?"
"Galveston," Barkley responded. "That dirty-ass water. We're not even going to send them to Cancun. We're sending them to Galveston where that dirty-ass water be washing up on the shore and people think they're at the beach."
Whoa. I think we can confirm that Charles Barkley is not a Galveston guy. A real shame too. I guess that just leaves more space at Moody Gardens and the Naval Museum for the rest of us.
"Y'all quit," Barkley continued. "Drive your ass down to Galveston."
Chuck had Shaq laughing so hard, you have to imagine that he has spent some time in Galveston, or as locals know it, G-Town.
But hang on proud citizens of Galveston, I think it could just be that Chuck was having a bad day. I was watching playoff hockey on TBS and Barkley made a cameo on their studio show, just like Shaq did earlier in the day.
He thanked them for giving all of us good hockey to watch because he was down the hall watching three "crap" basketball games.
So, there you go. Maybe it isn't that Galveston is dirty or sucks or is the place we should send teams who quit. It could just be that Chuck just had a bad day and decided to unload on the City of Galveston, which has been enthralling visitors since it was founded in the late 1830s.