May 8, 2026 • 7 mins
Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington react to Draymond Green’s heated exchange with Charles Barkley, and Parker isn’t holding back. He defends Barkley’s criticism of the Warriors while calling Draymond “mean-spirited,” “too sensitive,” and nowhere near Barkley’s level—on the court or behind the mic. Parker also argues Draymond’s style isn’t insightful or entertaining, while Kelvin adds that Draymond may be doing too much and burning bridges across multiple lanes of his career.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, speaking of forcing it, there's another person in the
basketball world who's been forcing the last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Just have to deal with him.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Then, Rob Parker's favorite player out of Michigan State.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We can't even get away from him this game. He's from.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Raymond Money Green has been filling in for shack on
inside the NBA, and last night during the broadcast, Chuck
said something to the.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Effect of the Warriors run is over. You guys are
not gonna win a championship. You're too old.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It happens to everybody as great as you were thirty six,
thirty seven years old. It happens. Draymond didn't seem to
respond to that in a classy fashion.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Take a listen. Sports are for young people.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You hope to have a great, long career, but sports
nobody wins.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
When that thirty seven thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
That you said what you said, I didn't want to
hear if he believes what you're talking, Yeah, I mean
I think the goal is just to not look like
you and the Houston Rockets uniform.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, as ultimately a goal for us, like we don't
want to What does.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
That look like?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Did you see it? I'm just asking I saw it.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Nobody laughed because it wasn't funny. It was it was
I'm gonna just be honest.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You know, I'm not with the podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Right. If I'm not with the podcast where people don't
put effort in, that's what I should say. Okay, if
you're doing a podcast and you're pushing back and you're
asking questions, and you're giving some information and you're not
doing inside jokes and and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
But the idea that some TV executive I don't know
where where ESPN, wherever it could be, looks at Draymond
Green and thinks that they have the next Charles Barkley.
He's Charles Barkley two point zero. They could not be
more wrong. I'm sorry because I don't get it. Charles Barkley.
(01:53):
What he said wasn't a rip on the Warriors. It
was realistic. He named all the other team he would,
He was real with it. It wasn't the Draymond you suck.
That's not what the conversation was. Draymond's sitting there, there's
a conversation about teams getting older, and that was natural.
Draymond turned into mean girl. He's just mean he's not funny,
(02:17):
he's not insightful. You can't say anything to him without
him getting his panties in a bunch.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How is that good television? It ain't good television. Even
when Charles.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Barkley's ripping on something, there's a degree of humor. He
could laugh at hisself. Oh, Draymond can't laugh at hisself.
It's always me against everybody. Oh, don't say that. You
can't say anything to me. I'm gonna cut you down.
Nobody laughed on that set about Charles Barkley in a
rocket uniform because it wasn't funny. You were just trying
(02:54):
to be mean spirited.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Because you've been.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Blessed to win four championships, I got news you you
went close to the talent Charles Barkley, way not even close.
So don't even like this whole idea. You could go
ahead and play that game. Charles never won, so he's
not a great player. I'm sorry, I'm not on that bus.
I covered Charles Barkley during those years. You need to
(03:19):
pop into YouTube. Go to YouTube and or pop in
a a VHS tape and watch Charles Barkley MVP. He
was a great player.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
He didn't win. Everybody doesn't win. That doesn't make you
better than him.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
And for you to be so damned sensitive every time
somebody has something to say, it's pathetic.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, and you mentioned something.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
If you're gonna be on TV, if you're gonna be
on radio, one of the things you have to be
is self deprecating, you know that.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, you make fun of ourselves.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We roast ourselves, or we roast you, you roast me,
We go rob g you leg swinging and all like.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
This is it's a part of it.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Seriously, we make boomerang breed you know it just it's
what you It's part of It's part of the game,
if you will, and anytime, and that's why people get
mad at Shack sometimes because Shak's always got the jokes
and all that. But anytime they bring up something or
somebody rolled some good what is it? You ain't gonna rings, Chuck,
and we all go shack that. It's kind of its
low bro and low brow.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
What is like that?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Don't get mad and Shack got you good. And then
you you you ain't got no rings like that? That's
all you ever can go to. You ain't got no rings.
And it's the same thing with Draymond. It's like Austin
Rivers said, dude, you're high, IQ, you got this, but
what are you talking about that?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
He you know, he stunted your career. Now you gotta
go low. Your daddy did this.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And yet Chuck crack, Chuck makes a great point and
then you oh, you're trying to have a better career.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Hey, by the way, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What, Chuck was averaging them years like sixteen and twelve,
you know what I mean, Like they were in the postseason.
So like, uh, y'all didn't make the postseason and you
weren't averaging sixteen and twelve, So, uh, how do you
want to don't you want to look at least look
like that?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
But did you did you hear the teams that he
mentioned when he talked about it, Isaiah's pistons.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's a point when it ends six he was all
the great teams.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's a point when it ends absolutely and so it's
all the great teams. And it's to me, he's doing
a disservice too, because I feel like he's burning himself
at both ends of the candle right now. What I
mean by that is like you're you're obviously still playing.
So you're in the NBA and you're on the team,
but you're doing all this. You're talking here and we
already talk about then you got to go on apology tour.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I said too much.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Shouldn't have said this, should have said that your team
is struggling right now. And it's to me, you're talking
about your coach, Steve Well, potential coach who knows Steve,
Steve Kerr. So to me, we're getting a place where
it's like, dude, you're doing too much. Your team ain't
playing well right now. You gotta struggle this year. You're
talking too much about your own coach, you're talking staff
about other players. You're on TV talking about too much
with Charles Barkley, who should have earned the respect you know,
(05:49):
of that show, has been the star of that show
for twenty plus years. So to me, Draymond is doing
too much and he's burning out at so many different angles,
you know, and fastest of his life right now.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And so again I just I've had enough. I'll pass.
I'm okay, I'm with you, I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And Charles's four years in Houston, averaging sixteen twelve and
four including averaging eighteen and twelve during their run to
the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So what like he was?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It didn't even make sense. That's why I already knew this.
They were in the Western Conference finals, they were in
the postseason. Y'all didn't make the postseason, like, y'all haven't
looked great. And Drea was putting up sixteen and twelve.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And Draymond never averaged what double digit rebound?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Come on, man, stop it sie chuck nice on that
one or more than fourteen points ever, and he's acting
like and that was the end of Charles too right
right again? If you're I just don't the TV executive.
I want people to say stuff. I don't want everything
to be agreed.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I don't want everybody to be singing kombay y'all and
everybody's great.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We're not.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
That's not what we're looking for. But to just be mean,
just to be mean, I don't know what the appeal
is in that. And Charles can't say anything to you
without you being offended.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It's gonna be a long eighty two game season. If
anytime somebody says, man, his knees about shot like yours
an your dude, that's you gotta and it's there is
a and by the way, there is a talent to it.
I know people don't think that Charles Barkley is talented
on television.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
He's not just goofy. He knows exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He knows what to say, when to say it, how
to say it, and obviously he's being authentically himself.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But there is a talent.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And just because you're like tough guy, you know, loud guy,
and I mean, it doesn't mean you're gonna be great TV,
doesn't mean you're gonna be great podcast. And again if
you and then that's the point too. Are you a player?
Are you on TV? What are you doing? Because you're
being hyper sensitive for a player when part of being
a player is being critiqued.
Well, speaking of forcing it, there's another person in the
basketball world who's been forcing the last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Just have to deal with him.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Then, Rob Parker's favorite player out of Michigan State.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We can't even get away from him this game. He's from.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Raymond Money Green has been filling in for shack on
inside the NBA, and last night during the broadcast, Chuck
said something to the.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Effect of the Warriors run is over. You guys are
not gonna win a championship. You're too old.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It happens to everybody as great as you were thirty six,
thirty seven years old. It happens. Draymond didn't seem to
respond to that in a classy fashion.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Take a listen. Sports are for young people.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You hope to have a great, long career, but sports
nobody wins.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
When that thirty seven thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
That you said what you said, I didn't want to
hear if he believes what you're talking, Yeah, I mean
I think the goal is just to not look like
you and the Houston Rockets uniform.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, as ultimately a goal for us, like we don't
want to What does.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
That look like?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Did you see it? I'm just asking I saw it.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Nobody laughed because it wasn't funny. It was it was
I'm gonna just be honest.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You know, I'm not with the podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Right. If I'm not with the podcast where people don't
put effort in, that's what I should say. Okay, if
you're doing a podcast and you're pushing back and you're
asking questions, and you're giving some information and you're not
doing inside jokes and and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
But the idea that some TV executive I don't know
where where ESPN, wherever it could be, looks at Draymond
Green and thinks that they have the next Charles Barkley.
He's Charles Barkley two point zero. They could not be
more wrong. I'm sorry because I don't get it. Charles Barkley.
(01:53):
What he said wasn't a rip on the Warriors. It
was realistic. He named all the other team he would,
He was real with it. It wasn't the Draymond you suck.
That's not what the conversation was. Draymond's sitting there, there's
a conversation about teams getting older, and that was natural.
Draymond turned into mean girl. He's just mean he's not funny,
(02:17):
he's not insightful. You can't say anything to him without
him getting his panties in a bunch.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How is that good television? It ain't good television. Even
when Charles.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Barkley's ripping on something, there's a degree of humor. He
could laugh at hisself. Oh, Draymond can't laugh at hisself.
It's always me against everybody. Oh, don't say that. You
can't say anything to me. I'm gonna cut you down.
Nobody laughed on that set about Charles Barkley in a
rocket uniform because it wasn't funny. You were just trying
(02:54):
to be mean spirited.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Because you've been.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Blessed to win four championships, I got news you you
went close to the talent Charles Barkley, way not even close.
So don't even like this whole idea. You could go
ahead and play that game. Charles never won, so he's
not a great player. I'm sorry, I'm not on that bus.
I covered Charles Barkley during those years. You need to
(03:19):
pop into YouTube. Go to YouTube and or pop in
a a VHS tape and watch Charles Barkley MVP. He
was a great player.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
He didn't win. Everybody doesn't win. That doesn't make you
better than him.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
And for you to be so damned sensitive every time
somebody has something to say, it's pathetic.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, and you mentioned something.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
If you're gonna be on TV, if you're gonna be
on radio, one of the things you have to be
is self deprecating, you know that.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, you make fun of ourselves.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We roast ourselves, or we roast you, you roast me,
We go rob g you leg swinging and all like.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
This is it's a part of it.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Seriously, we make boomerang breed you know it just it's
what you It's part of It's part of the game,
if you will, and anytime, and that's why people get
mad at Shack sometimes because Shak's always got the jokes
and all that. But anytime they bring up something or
somebody rolled some good what is it? You ain't gonna rings, Chuck,
and we all go shack that. It's kind of its
low bro and low brow.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
What is like that?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Don't get mad and Shack got you good. And then
you you you ain't got no rings like that? That's
all you ever can go to. You ain't got no rings.
And it's the same thing with Draymond. It's like Austin
Rivers said, dude, you're high, IQ, you got this, but
what are you talking about that?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
He you know, he stunted your career. Now you gotta
go low. Your daddy did this.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And yet Chuck crack, Chuck makes a great point and
then you oh, you're trying to have a better career.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Hey, by the way, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What, Chuck was averaging them years like sixteen and twelve,
you know what I mean, Like they were in the postseason.
So like, uh, y'all didn't make the postseason and you
weren't averaging sixteen and twelve, So, uh, how do you
want to don't you want to look at least look
like that?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
But did you did you hear the teams that he
mentioned when he talked about it, Isaiah's pistons.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's a point when it ends six he was all
the great teams.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's a point when it ends absolutely and so it's
all the great teams. And it's to me, he's doing
a disservice too, because I feel like he's burning himself
at both ends of the candle right now. What I
mean by that is like you're you're obviously still playing.
So you're in the NBA and you're on the team,
but you're doing all this. You're talking here and we
already talk about then you got to go on apology tour.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I said too much.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Shouldn't have said this, should have said that your team
is struggling right now. And it's to me, you're talking
about your coach, Steve Well, potential coach who knows Steve,
Steve Kerr. So to me, we're getting a place where
it's like, dude, you're doing too much. Your team ain't
playing well right now. You gotta struggle this year. You're
talking too much about your own coach, you're talking staff
about other players. You're on TV talking about too much
with Charles Barkley, who should have earned the respect you know,
(05:49):
of that show, has been the star of that show
for twenty plus years. So to me, Draymond is doing
too much and he's burning out at so many different angles,
you know, and fastest of his life right now.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And so again I just I've had enough. I'll pass.
I'm okay, I'm with you, I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And Charles's four years in Houston, averaging sixteen twelve and
four including averaging eighteen and twelve during their run to
the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So what like he was?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It didn't even make sense. That's why I already knew this.
They were in the Western Conference finals, they were in
the postseason. Y'all didn't make the postseason, like, y'all haven't
looked great. And Drea was putting up sixteen and twelve.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And Draymond never averaged what double digit rebound?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Come on, man, stop it sie chuck nice on that
one or more than fourteen points ever, and he's acting
like and that was the end of Charles too right
right again? If you're I just don't the TV executive.
I want people to say stuff. I don't want everything
to be agreed.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I don't want everybody to be singing kombay y'all and
everybody's great.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We're not.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
That's not what we're looking for. But to just be mean,
just to be mean, I don't know what the appeal
is in that. And Charles can't say anything to you
without you being offended.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It's gonna be a long eighty two game season. If
anytime somebody says, man, his knees about shot like yours
an your dude, that's you gotta and it's there is
a and by the way, there is a talent to it.
I know people don't think that Charles Barkley is talented
on television.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
He's not just goofy. He knows exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He knows what to say, when to say it, how
to say it, and obviously he's being authentically himself.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But there is a talent.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And just because you're like tough guy, you know, loud guy,
and I mean, it doesn't mean you're gonna be great TV,
doesn't mean you're gonna be great podcast. And again if
you and then that's the point too. Are you a player?
Are you on TV? What are you doing? Because you're
being hyper sensitive for a player when part of being
a player is being critiqued.
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