Charles Barkley has hope for the city of San Francisco after having said during the broadcast of the NBA stars match that he met Mayor Daniel Lurie.
The city was the host of the 2025 NBA Star Match. Barkley had been in the case of the city because of its criminal population and the homeless population. During the broadcast, he expressed some optimism that the city will begin to clean.
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The Director General of Global Stars of Chuck, Charles Barkley, looks during the introductions before the NBA All Star 2025 game at the Chase Center in San Francisco on February 16, 2025. (Cary Edmondson-Imagn images)
“Shoutout to the inhabitants of San Francisco, in particular the mayor. I met the mayor a few times. He was great, and I hope that we can do something about the homeless population,” said Barkley in a match between the Shaquille O’Neal team and the team and the Candace Parker team.
Barkley said last month he was going to the match because it was in San Francisco.
“He’s going to make the star team,” said Barkley at the time. “I’m not going. I’m not going to this place infested with rats in San Francisco.”
Barkley responded to one of his colleagues calling San Francisco as “beautiful”.
“San Francisco is not a beautiful city. Rats. Cats. You don’t make me like San Francisco. No. No, no, no”
From left to right, Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley stand in the middle of the field to be honored during the NBA All-Star basketball match on Sunday February 16, 2025 in San Francisco. (AP photo / Godofredo A. Vásquez)
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However, it was far from the first time he had criticized San Francisco. Last year, he torn the city during the alternative broadcast of the NBA of the Star Match, which took place in Indianapolis.
Barkley asked Reggie Miller what he would choose: playing in the cold in Indianapolis – where Miller spent his entire career in the 18 -year -old NBA – or “Be with a bunch of homeless crooks in San Francisco”.
Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green described Barkley as “crazy” and said Barkley was not “welcome” in the city. Parker said: “We love San Francisco”, but Barkley offered a replica.
“No, we don’t do it,” he said. “… you can’t even walk there.”
He later suggested that you could walk in the city with a “bulletproof vest”.
The president of the then host host committee of the Bowl 50, Daniel Lurie, speaks during the press conference of the host committee of the Super Bowl 50 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on February 1, 2016. (Jerry Lai-Usa today Sports)
Lurie promised to make the streets of San Francisco again, to build “enough housing to run our accessibility crisis” and to tackle “our health and behavioral health crisis”.
