Auburn basketball legend and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley took aim at the city of San Francisco during the TruTV "alt-cast" of the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday night.
Barkley, now a broadcaster, asked fellow Hall of Famer Reggie Miller if he would rather be in the cold of Indianapolis or be "around a bunch of homeless crooks in San Francisco."
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"If you had the chance of being cold or being around a bunch of homeless crooks in San Francisco, which would you take?" he asked.
The question drew pushback, with host Taylor Rooks responding, "We love San Francisco!"
Barkley replied, "No, we don't!"
"You can't even walk around down there," he added.
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green argued it was possible to walk around San Francisco, to which Barkley stated, "Yeah, with a bulletproof vest."
According to Awful Announcing, this is not the first time Barkley has criticized San Francisco, which he referred to as a "hellhole" in 2022.
"You know what the bad thing is about all this rain? It's not raining in San Francisco to clean up all those dirty-ass streets they got there," Barkley said then.
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