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The Spurs and the Thunder are tied, 2-2, heading into Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals. Wembanyama had a dominant performance in Game 4, evening up the series before it goes back to Oklahoma City<\/a>.<\/p>\n But Barkley is fed up with the narratives surrounding Wembanyama.<\/p>\n Barkley is not happy with the growing narrative that Oklahoma City is playing dirty and overly physical against San Antonio<\/a> superstar Victor Wembanyama.<\/p>\n He sounded off on the “clowns” on TV.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Barkley rips ‘clowns’ on TV after Game 4<\/p>\n Barkley started off by sarcastically saying that we need to “pray” for Wemby.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we all need to pray for Wemby,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cBecause he can\u2019t play too many minutes. They\u2019re gonna kill him out there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re joking,\u201d Kenny Smith replied.<\/p>\n \u201cMan, I am (expletive) sure joking,\u201d Barkley responded.<\/p>\n \u201cThese people, man, they\u2019re (expletive) me off,\u201d Barkley continued. \u201cI\u2019m watching the whole games. They ain\u2019t playing dirty. These are some of the softest fouls I\u2019ve ever seen in my life. You\u2019ve got these clowns on TV talking about, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re going to hurt poor Wemby.\u2019 I was like, hurt him? Are you kidding, man? It drives me crazy watching these shows.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Oklahoma City does play physical defense, but Barkley, who starred in the NBA in the 1990s, is certainly used to that.<\/p>\n He’s clearly fed up with the narratives surrounding the San Antonio Spurs star, as the Western Conference Finals heads to Game 5.<\/p>\n This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on May 25, 2026, where it first appeared in the Sports Media<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Barkley likes to tell it how it is – or how he thinks it is, anyway. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[351,355,12205,6415,6999,2116,99,60950,32090,69310],"class_list":["post-665273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-charles-barkley","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-the-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama","tag-western-conference-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"<a](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0a70f5967e4c0f26f65dbd44b0ea4e34.jpeg\"\/)
Phoenix Suns<\/a> former player Charles Barkley in attendance at Footprint Center.Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n