[新聞] MJ和巴克利重新修復起兩人的友誼
Charles Barkley, Michael Jordan take major step toward repairing friendship afte
r 14-year spat
Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan weren’t just two of the biggest stars in the
NBA in the 1990s, they were also teammates on the Dream Team in the 1992 Olympi
cs and close friends who happened to love golf.
But Barkley’s criticism over a decade ago of Jordan’s then-role as owner and h
ead of basketball operations of the Charlotte Bobcats (now Hornets) damaged that
relationship.
Now, they appear to have mended fences — and golf will once again be involved.
The problems started in 2012, when Barkley said on ESPN Chicago’s Waddle & Silv
y show that “the biggest problem has been I don’t know if [Jordan] has hired e
nough people around him who he will listen to. One thing about being famous is t
he people around you, you pay all their bills, so they very rarely disagree with
you because they want you to pick up the check… I don’t think Michael has hir
ed enough people around him who will disagree.”
Barkley added at the time: “I love Michael, but he has not done a good job.”
Jordan, not surprisingly, did not appreciate those comments and in 2020, Barkley
noted their relationship hadn’t recovered.
“The guy was like a brother to me for, shoot, 20-something years,” Barkley sai
d six years ago. “And I do… I feel sadness. But to me, he’s still the greates
t basketball player ever. I wish him nothing but the best. But there’s nothing
I can do about it, brother.”
Until now, apparently.
Speaking on Chris Russo’s Mad Dog Unleashed on SiriusXM on Friday, Barkley said
the two have started talking again and will hit the links after the NBA season
is over.
“We had a conversation,” Barkley said. “We’re going to get together and play
golf as soon as basketball is over.”
As Russo said to Barkley, “Charles, that’s a big story because he was mad at y
ou!”
But Barkley insisted the issues weren’t that deep.
“We’re not like Prince William and Prince Harry,” said Barkley, who is on “I
nside the NBA” on ESPN, while Jordan is a minority owner with the Hornets, whos
e season ended Friday night in a play-in loss to the Orlando Magic. “We always
had a lot of love for each other. But we talked, actually, in the last probably
72 hours. We decided to get together and play golf as soon as basketball is over
.”
Charles Barkley與Michael Jordan在長達14年的不和之後,邁出了修復友誼的重要一步。
在1990年代,巴克利和喬丹不僅是NBA最耀眼的兩位球星之一,他們也曾在1992年奧運「夢
幻隊」中當過隊友,私下更是熱愛打高爾夫的好友。
然而,十多年前,巴克利批評喬丹當時擔任夏洛特山貓隊(現為夏洛特黃蜂隊)老闆兼籃球
營運主管的表現,導致兩人關係破裂。
如今,他們似乎已經重修舊好,而且高爾夫再次成為關鍵。
問題始於2012年,當時巴克利在ESPN Chicago的節目中表示:「最大問題在於,我不確定(
喬丹)身邊是否有足夠多他願意傾聽的人。成名之後,你身邊的人都是你在付帳,他們很少
會反對你,因為他們希望你繼續買單……我不認為麥可身邊有足夠會提出不同意見的人。」
巴克利當時還補充:「我愛麥可,但他做得不好。」
喬丹對這些評論自然感到不滿。直到2020年,巴克利仍表示兩人的關係尚未恢復。
巴克利在六年前說:「他對我來說就像兄弟一樣,將近20多年。我確實感到難過。但在我心
中,他仍是史上最偉大的籃球員。我祝他一切順利,但這件事我也無能為力。」
不過現在情況似乎有所改變。
巴克利在週五接受SiriusXM節目《Mad Dog Unleashed》主持人Chris Russo訪問時表示,兩
人已經重新開始聯絡,並計畫在NBA賽季結束後一起打高爾夫。
巴克利說:「我們談過了。我們會在籃球賽季結束後一起打高爾夫。」
主持人魯索則回應:「查爾斯,這可是大新聞,因為他之前對你很生氣!」
但巴克利強調事情並沒有那麼嚴重。
他表示:「我們又不是威廉王子和哈利王子那樣。我們一直彼此有很多感情。事實上,我們
大概在過去72小時內有過對話。我們決定在籃球賽季結束後見面打高爾夫。」
目前巴克利在《Inside the NBA》節目中擔任評論員,而喬丹則是黃蜂隊的小股東;該隊本
季在附加賽中輸給奧蘭多魔術隊後,已於週五結束賽季。
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