Before he became the Warriors’ head coach, Steve Kerr was a TNT colleague of Charles Barkley.
These days, Barkley is one of Golden State’s biggest critics. Last week, while speaking at Southern Methodist University about the new NBA schedule that cuts down on travel-heavy stretches, the Hall of Famer poked fun at the “poor babies” who make “$20-, $30-, $40 million a year” and “can’t play back-to-back games.”
It was a not-so-subtle jab at Kerr, who, in the final game of an eight-city, 13-day gauntlet last season, sat Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala for a nationally-televised matchup against San Antonio.