' NBA Hall of Fame member Charles Barkley unloaded on WNBA players for being "petty" toward rookie star Caitlin Clark. Appearing on "The Bill Simmons Podcast," the former player said that the WNBA, but mostly the players, have handled Clark's rise to fame about as poorly as possible.
"These ladies — and I'm a WNBA fan — they cannot have f***ed this Caitlin Clark thing up any worse if they tried," Barkley said in a clip circulating from the podcast.
"If you got a bunch of dudes in a room and said, 'Let's f*** up the WNBA,' we couldn't have come up with a massive plan [better than] what these women have done," Barkley hilariously added.