Charles Barkley: “I was never worried about me, Ernie, Kenny, and Shaq because obviously we’re gonna have our opportunities. But it was very frustrating. It’s been frustrating. I’ve never had normal life. I don’t mean that in a negative way. But like, when you talk to people who you are friends with. They’re like ‘Yo man, I’m married, I have kids, I have a mortgage and I’m not gonna have a job in six or seven months.’ That’s like a real thing. That’s like a real thing. I’ve been in the NBA my whole life so I’ve never been around people who have had to worry about their job security. But it was so stressful at work because number one, you could tell we were gonna lose the contract.” -via Awful Announcing / November 26, 2024
