Charles Barkley Used To Yell At His Teammates While Eating McDonald’s On A Stationary Bike During Practices

Charles Barkley, who was famously referred to as “the round mound of rebound” during his playing days, was legendary for being a fat slob that was somehow still able to put up hall of fame numbers.

According to Barkley’s former 76ers teammate, Jayson Williams, Barkley had some pretty terrible habits off the court that probably prevented him from every winning an NBA championship.

Via Vice Sports “Cookies” Podcast

Charles Barkley was probably the strongest man from the bellybutton down. Never would lift the weights, but let me tell you something man. You knew he wasn’t going to win the championship.

He was the worst person to play with as a rookie because when you went in you got all the bad habits from him. You stayed out all night and then you couldn’t figure out why you didn’t have it in the game. It’s because when Charles came to practice he didn’t practice.

I’ll never forget this story. My second day of practice we’re out there running up and down. Charles Barkley comes in about 5-minutes late. He comes in and he has a big McDonald’s bag. And he goes and he sits down on the bike. And like a chemist. You know a guy over there cutting up lines or something. You know? He’s just making – he’s got his back towards us and he’s doing stuff – I’m like what the hell is he doing? So he takes the eggs, and he takes the pancakes, the sausage, maple syrup and butter, puts it all in one, warps it up with the pancake and gets some extra syrup. And the butter’s oozing out. And I’m going wow, you going to eat that then and come run with us? Hell no. He’s going to eat that while he’s on the stationary bike. Peddling one mile an hour going “You sons of bitches! Run the floor! You lazy bastards! You f—ers! That’s why we ain’t never going to win the game!” And pancake is spitting out his mouth.

That’s turrible man. Just plain turrible.

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