Charles Barkley Tells LeBron James To Shut Up Over Wanting To Play Football: 'They'll Kill You'
Charles Barkley finally told LeBron James what normal, sane people have been screaming at him for years now: ENOUGH WITH THE NONSENSE!
Barkley – who is reaching Stephen A. levels of publicity on a weekly basis at this point – went on Inside the NFL (yep, still a thing!) – last night and stuffed LeBron in a bodybag over his long-running take of being able to play in the NFL.
"They'll kill you," Barkley said, which was probably hyperbole but also probably not that far from the truth. "I love these basketball players saying, ‘Well, I was good back then.’ I'm like ‘Dude, you can't play football.' These are grown men out there!"
Charles Barkley stuffs LeBron James in a locker over NFL aspirations
Charles Barkley constantly has my brain in a pretzel. I agree with him on so many things – like this – but then he also has his dumb moments on his CNN show (shocker!) and has times when he calls unvaccinated people "a--holes."
One step forward, two steps back, I reckon. Oh well. Can't win 'em all.
Anyway, he is 100% right about this. LeBron James got the ball rolling a few years ago with this doozy of a take and it's been all downhill ever since:
Now, I'll give LeBron his due – he's a massive human. Built like a brick wall, too. No doubt it, as Cris Collinsworth would say about him during Sunday Night Football.
He was a beast in high school, but, like Barkley says, so are a lot of people. Hell, I was pretty good in high school player until my head got scrambled and my shoulders popped out like a Jack-In-The-box. After that, I was donezo.
But you see it all the time – high school superstars go to college and flame out. And even the ones who go to college and do well usually don't make it in the NFL.
It's a whole different ballgame in the NFL. Spoiler alert, I know.
Now, could LeBron maybe get lucky and find himself 1-on-1 against a 5-11 cornerback in the back of the end zone? Perhaps. I reckon it's possible he comes down with it. But that sheer size wouldn't carry him forever.
And unless he plays QB, he ain't getting away with his usual 10 flops per game. Hell, that only works if your last name's Brady or Mahomes. No special treatment between the hashes.
It's 1-on-1 out there and the guy lining up across from you is one of the best players in the world at his position. That's why he's there.
Would Rashard Mendenhall maybe take a flier on LeBron James in his own personal draft? Probably. But I doubt any of the 32 NFL teams would.
Point for Charles Barkley on this one!