After years of disparaging the ladies of San Antonio, NBA nice Charles Barkley lastly caught some warmth from the town’s mayor.
Earlier than Sport 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals on Wednesday, June 3, ESPN aired a montage of Barkley’s feedback in regards to the Texas city.
“You realize, I feel it’s an incredible metropolis, however they do have some large ol’ girls down there,” Barkley, 63, stated in a single clip. In one other, Barkley stated, “They ain’t obtained no skinny girls down there.”
San Antonio mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined the Contained in the NBA panel on Wednesday, the place she gave Barkley a style of his personal drugs.
“I discovered a very long time in the past you may’t educate braveness, you may’t educate class. And Mr. Barkley reminds us of that,” Ortiz Jones, 45, stated.
Cohost Shaquille O’Neal reveled within the diss, saying, “Get him, mayor! Get him!”
“Right here I’m, so glad to be again in your stunning metropolis,” Barkley stated. “I took a stroll at present, everyone was implausible. They know I’m simply joking round.”
Ortiz Jones got here with presents, presenting Barkley with a batch of churros after he beforehand commented in regards to the affinity girls in San Antonio allegedly have for the fried deal with.
Gina Ortiz Jones and Charles Barkley Courtesy of Gina Ortiz Jones/Instagram; Getty Pictures
“They be woofin’ them churros,” Barkley stated on Contained in the NBA in 2014. “These large ol’ girls be consuming them churros.”
Whereas handing over the field of churros to Barkley, Ortiz Jones made a crack about his latest weight reduction, which has come partially because of GLP-1 drugs.
“Chuck has a number of ideas in regards to the churros,” she stated. “We all know he’s on a weight loss plan, however we all know he’s not actually on a weight loss plan. So listed below are the churros. Chucky churros.”
Barkley chomped down on a churro in delight because the present went to industrial break.
The Corridor of Famer confirmed off his noticeable weight reduction when the 2025-26 NBA season tipped off again in October.
“I’m figuring out, too. You started working out. You’ll be able to’t simply take a shot,” Barkley stated.
In Could 2023, Barkley revealed he had misplaced over 60 kilos in six months with the assistance of weight loss plan, train and drugs.
“I began at 352 [pounds] and I’m right down to 290,” Barkley stated throughout an look on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Present. “I’m beginning to really feel like a human being, not a fats ass anymore.”
He added, “My physician advised me, she says, ‘There’s loads of fats younger folks. Ain’t loads of fats previous folks, they’re all useless.’”
