The stubbornness of Charles Barkley will never allow him to acknowledge the greatness of the Golden State Warriors. In fact, it only makes him stoop lower.

In front of a crowd at the Lake Tahoe Casino earlier this week, Barkley took to the stage and ripped the Warriors, saying that they “play girly basketball.”

Jerry Rice, who spent most of his career in the Bay Area playing for the San Francisco 49ers, was there to try and set Charles in his place. But Barkley wasn't backing down.

Here's the video:

Barkley famously doesn't respect the Warriors. He still believes you can't win a championship taking jump shots even though Golden State and San Antonio and really all of the recent champions have done this.

Barkley was also critical of Kevin Durant's decision to join the Warriors, hypocritically saying it's something he would never have done, even though he forced a trade to the Houston Rockets in 1996 to join Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler.

Sir Charles is the epitome of a former athlete that never will believe the current players could play in his day. It's an act, one that he gets paid quite a bit for by TNT, but it's getting kind of old.

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