“Grandpa Charles, tell us about when you hurt your arm and played three overtimes against the Chicago Bulls. Please, grandpa Charles.”
In the days between Game 3 and Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Charles Barkley gave the media a glimpse into the future by imagining his hypothetical grandchildren begging for a story.
“I could barely walk that morning,” Barkley continued, as reported by the Associated Press. “The doctors went in there, sewed my arm on. It was ripped off in a tractor-trailer accident. They sewed my arm on, I could barely lift it above my knee.