When Talking Trash Goes Horribly Wrong

able to deny them a place on the short list of all-time great nba teams the chicago bulbs nearing the end of an extraordinary basketball odyssey and believing to a man that tonight is the night i think they're playing against the old phoenix suns who let people bully them around and intimidate them we're not like that anymore and if anybody the same thing to my teammates they're gonna have to go through me it's june 18th 1993 game five of the nba finals the phoenix suns are playing the bulls in chicago the reigning league mvp and charles barkley versus the former league mvp and michael jordan the suns are up 76-71 and things are getting heated if the bulls win this game they will complete the elusive rarely captured three-peat if they lose this game they have to head back to phoenix where barkley and the sun's only lost six games over the entire season now as if the championship wasn't enough motivation for jordan and the bulls michael was not too happy about losing the mvp award to barkley i mean mj only led the league in about 300 different categories so you could say he took it personal so as you could guess the trash talking in this series was at an all-time high but in a final series featuring two of the best players in the entire nba the battle wasn't taking place between barkley and jordan [Music] his only chance was to try and gamble and get around barclays [Music] you can't guard me every time we come down i'm gonna take you one-on-one and they're drawing back and forth at each other after dropping 42 points on scotty's head in game two charles barkley let pippin know that there was nothing he could do to stop him he was getting anything he wanted on offense averaging 30 and 10 in the series and making scottie pippen look like a liability on defense rather than the all-nba defender that he was with under a minute left in the third quarter barkley draws a foul on pippin in the post pippin can't believe it charles is loving it and he lets everyone in the building know just exactly how he feels about pippin by uttering the most disrespectful line in all of basketball you can't guard me now imagine for just a second that you are playing so out of your mind in the nba finals that you can say with complete confidence that one of the best defenders in the history of the nba cannot guard you but charles didn't just call out pippin on the line in front of 19 000 people after sinking both shots barkley proceeds to stalk scottie pippen up the entire length of the court like a damn psychopath so close to scotty you'd think he was telling the man a secret but when another player calls you out like this on national television you have no choice but to square that man up one on one so that's what scotty did [Music] [Applause] [Music] so let's see what happens here play then scotty came right back and scored on charles and said i'm not going anywhere either now finally charles barkley and the phoenix suns have realize that hey we can be friends off the court some other time but we can't be friends on the court and try to win a championship pippin goes right back at barkley and gets a tough tipping at the rim he then turns around and tells charles a little secret of his own you can't guard me this is as good as it gets vintage 90s basketball barclay is completely soaking up this moment closing in on a win against the great chicago bulls in the finals the suns end up getting the win barkley continued to talk trash during free throws during plays and even from the bench but by now charles had yet to figure out what the rest of the league already knew you do not under any circumstances talk trash to this team just look it's listed right here in the rule book but of course charles had to learn this the hard way leading up to the finals in the 32 times charles barkley matched up against scottie pippen barkley outscored him 27 times scotty rarely got the best of barkley but after challenging the man in the most disrespectful way on the biggest stage scottie conjured up his inner michael jordan and took his game to another level i'll tell you it's destiny i don't care what anybody says we believe that it's our destiny to win a world championship this year that's all i needed that's all i needed for him to do that and it became personal with me this is the nba on nbc realizes that miller can't move his feet it's a matter can he elevate over charles he certainly can hot right yes scottie pippen [Applause] don't take [Applause] a gorgeous move by scottie pippen okay pause it here because things are getting interesting we're closing into the final minutes of game six of the finals the suns are up by four points with little over two minutes left in the game this is their game to lose with their season and a championship on the line scottie pippen has held barkley to just 39 from the field but the suns have still found a way to get a lead on the bulls late in the game at this point every possession is critical the bulls have the ball and barkley is hounding pippin the bulls cannot get anything going and the sons force a shot clock violation barkley is absolutely amped up so amped up that he gets right into pippin's face and gives him a reminder that he cannot be stopped this is as brutal as it gets team down by four in game six of the finals and you got the league mvp in your ear in front of millions but instead of tripping back scotty pippen had other plans the suns bring the ball up the courts and get the ball into barclay down low barkley takes it right into pippin and pippin gets a crucial stop at the rim for the next few plays it's a stalemate neither team gaining any ground until michael jordan makes a layup with 38 seconds left on the clock sun's lead is cut to just two so with 30 seconds left in the game the suns need to get something going on this possession they get the ball into barclay who has horus grant on an island this is barclays moment to rise up as the league's mvp and prove his worth on the largest stage but instead scottie pippen runs over to double charles completely rattling the sun's offense which leads to a shot clock violation scottie pippen once again showing barkley his defensive genius so here we are with a championship on the line and only 14 seconds left in the game charles barkley doesn't know it yet but this is the best shot he will ever have at a ring this moment will inevitably determine his legacy so what does he do and possibly the most critical moments of his career he gets right into pippin's grill and talks to more trash 14 seconds away from a game seven up by two and barkley is pushing scotty to his limit these are the small battles within the game that often get overlooked but actually end up defining players and in this defining moment who better to initiate the offense than scottie pippen mike brings the ball up scotty meets him near half court and forces barkley to chase him leaving the paint exposed scotty then completely burns barkley on the step and opens up an opportunity for one of the biggest sequences of his and unfortunately charles barkley's career [Music] remaining in the fourth quarter a monumental dagger of a three by john paxson putting the bulls up by one point with only 3.9 seconds on the clock now most basketball fans remember this moment for this huge three-pointer but when you watch the tapes this entire play was initiated by scotty blowing right past barkley causing the defense to collapse leaving paxton wide open the man who charles barkley proudly stated could not guard him the man who had to put up with barclays incessant trash talk night after night completely flipped the script on barkley proving that in the biggest moments it was actually charles who could not guard scotty and in one swift moment nearly all of his confidence and hopes for a title vanish now if i had to guess i would say it's probably this moment right here that barkley reconsiders all of those choice awards he had for pippin but not all hope is lost there's still 3.9 seconds on the clock barclay and the suns still have a chance they inbound the ball and get it in the hands of kevin johnson now pay close attention right here johnson drives inside and forces pippin to sag off of barkley leaving a wide open opportunity for a lob pass they've done it a thousand times it's the closest thing to a surefire bucket it's right there but hindsight is always 20 20 and barkley's shot at a ring was gone all the trash talk all of the disrespect in mind games proving to be fatal i mean this tactic usually worked for barkley it helped lead his team to the best record in the nba it got him a league in vp and pushed his team to the finals but on this night in what would be the closest barclay would ever come to a championship charles realized that while he was trying to get into scottie pippen's head scotty pippen was quietly playing a mind game of his own maybe this was all part of the plan let barkley talk his trash let him win these small battles because while charles had his eyes on scotty scotty never took his eyes off of the prize hope you all enjoyed and as always until next time you

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Length: 12min 18sec (738 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 05 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/MasterTeacher123]

Barkley was amazing in that series lol. Mike was just mike

[u/naslanidis]

That was such a fun Suns team to watch back in the day.

This vid is unflattering of Barkley but Barkley trash talked everyone and it usually stayed on the court.