Charles Barkley has some questionable opinions about what Blake Griffin’s return can do for the Clippers
Charles Barkley is pretty much on the throne or somewhere close to next-in-line for the throne as the King of Hot Takes in the sport world, whether he means to be or not. Though he’s an incredibly entertaining and smart basketball mind, he has a tendency to go off the rails at time. Thursday night when he was talking about Blake Griffin and the Los Angeles Clippers was one of those nights.
During the Inside the NBA halftime show on TNT, Barkley began talking about Griffin’s impending return to action for the Clippers after breaking his hand in late January. That’s when the Round Mound of Rebound dropped a blazing, fiery, molten hot take by proclaiming that the Clippers with a dominant Blake Griffin come back could win a championship. No, he wasn’t kidding:
This is no slight on the Clippers who have performed admirably since Griffin first had to go out of the lineup right after Christmas with a quad injury, but there’s no chance in hell that they are winning the title this season. Even if you were 100 percent certain that Blake Griffin was coming back to average 25 points and 13 rebounds per game, the Clippers still aren’t going to keep pace with two historic teams in their own conference in the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs.
Hopefully the TNT studios have cooled down a bit after this hot take, because it’s really a miracle that everything didn’t burst into flames after Barkley uttered these words.
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