Charles Barkley Ate McDonalds While Yelling at Teammates

Retired NBA player and former Barkley teammate, Jayson Williams, shared a story of Barkley during a 2016 appearance. He told Ben Detrick and Jordan Redaelli of Vice Sports’ Cookies podcast, how we knew Charles “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 McDonalds 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, wraps 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 then and then 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, ‘Run the floor!’”
 

Jayson Williams