Charles Barkley’s unfiltered thoughts on Utah, the Jazz, winter sports, and the psyche of the modern NBA player

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Do players want to come to Salt Lake City? Not really, Barkley said, but that's true of several NBA towns. 'I don’t remember people saying ‘let me go to San Antonio, or Indiana, or Sacramento.’ So you just have to really draft well.'

“These players today are a little too sensitive — I mean, this notion that you can get fans tossed out now. It depends on what the fan said, but just because the fan is saying something to you that you might not like — I think the NBA is going overboard when you toss fans out the game. Now racial slurs, homophobic slurs, things like that, cannot be tolerated. But I’d have to hear somebody say something really outrageous for a fan to get tossed.

• an indoor venue, where they can run and host a TV show, regardless of what the weather conditions would turn out to be; Kenny Smith talks to reporters before filming the TNT show Inside the NBA from the Complex in Salt Lake City, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. For a couple of weeks, their team promoted the event on radio stations and on Instagram; over 1200 fans streamed in to fill the venue to its altered capacity. Some were there for Khalifa and the concert, but most chose to surround the desk of O’Neal, Johnson, Smith, and Barkley.

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