Written by Justin Block at Huffington Post.com
Much of the fallout from Kevin Durant’s Monday decision to sign with the Golden State Warriors has centered around the new league-wide perception of Durant.
Entering his 10th NBA season without a championship, the superstar’s dash to the Warriors to join fellow All-Stars Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green and create a potential dynasty has split opinion among NBA observers: Durant is either lame for creating a Warriors “Big Four” or sensible for joining the best team possible.
Rather unexpectedly, the ever-controversial NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley, who never won a championship during his playing days (Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls stomped out those dreams), has a serious gripe with Durant’s move to the Warriors. His anti-Super Team attitude, which is one that Jordan concurs with, is simple: “Don’t you want to compete?”
As seen in the video above, Barkley explained on ESPN radio’s “Mike and Mike”on Wednesday morning why his own ring-chasing career move was different than Durant’s dastardly dynasty-building decision:
I’m pretty sure Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone and John Stockton ― we think we’re pretty damn good. We could have played with some of those other guys and kind of cheated our way to a championship. But there is this thing that started with this new generation where these guys feel so much pressure. Everybody wants to win …
That is my problem. Listen, if you get traded, you get traded, but when you get together and say, “Let’s dominate the league and try to cheat your way to a championship.”
