{"id":413753,"date":"2022-12-21T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=413753"},"modified":"2022-12-21T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:05:11","slug":"whoopty-doo-nba-legend-charles-barkley-unconvinced-by-new-york-knicks-despite-the-winning-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/whoopty-doo-nba-legend-charles-barkley-unconvinced-by-new-york-knicks-despite-the-winning-record\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhoopty Doo\u201d: NBA Legend Charles Barkley Unconvinced By New York Knicks Despite the Winning Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks are never taken seriously by the basketball community, despite their best efforts. Since a championship banner was raised to the rafters of Madison Square Garden, it has been nearly 50 years. For die-hard hoops fans in New York, the situation has been depressing. The New York Knicks have won eight straight games since dropping back-to-back games to the Milwaukee Bucks and Dallas Mavericks earlier this month. However, Charles Barkley isn&#8217;t convinced by their performances.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vkmzZwqGLZg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Knicks just defeated the depleted Golden State Warriors, improving their record to 18-13 and moving them up to sixth place in the Eastern Conference. Shaquille O&#8217;Neal, another TNT commentator, projected an early exit if the Knicks enter the playoffs, echoing similar pessimism from Barkley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"2-Time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic Lashes Out at NBA Legend Shaquille O\u2019Neal For Speaking Russian\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/2-time-nba-mvp-nikola-jokic-lashes-out-at-nba-legend-shaquille-oneal-for-speaking-russian\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">2-Time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic Lashes Out at NBA Legend Shaquille O\u2019Neal For Speaking Russian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Charles Barkley discusses in form Knicks<\/h2>\n<p>Barkley <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/charles-barkley-still-skeptical-knicks-012800454.html\">said<\/a>:<em> \u201cI\u2019m with you Shaq, whoop-de-doo! They\u2019re not even the best team in the same state. I gave love to them. I just said they\u2019re playing great but they\u2019re not even the best team in their city.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shaq on the Knicks: &quot;I don&#39;t think they can get out of one round of the playoffs&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Charles Barkley on the Knicks: &quot;\u2026I&#39;m with you Shaq. Whoop-de-doo\u2026They&#39;re playing great, but they&#39;re not even the best team in their city&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8wnW0bEvUa\">pic.twitter.com\/8wnW0bEvUa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA_NewYork\/status\/1605356219266236416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shaq and Charles Barkley may come out as a little overly critical of the Knicks, but given the team&#8217;s illustrious past, it is hard to blame them. The Brooklyn Nets, who have a 19-12 record, presently hold the title of best team in New York. Brooklyn has also won 10 of their previous 11 games and is on a six-game winning run.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_381936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381936\" style=\"width: 1320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-381936\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/03\/Shaquille-ONeal-and-Charles-Barkley.jpg\" alt=\"Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley\" width=\"1320\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/03\/Shaquille-ONeal-and-Charles-Barkley.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/03\/Shaquille-ONeal-and-Charles-Barkley-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/03\/Shaquille-ONeal-and-Charles-Barkley-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/03\/Shaquille-ONeal-and-Charles-Barkley-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credits: Marca.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Inter-city rivals of the Knicks also have more well-known superstars in Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. 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Since a championship banner was raised to the rafters of Madison Square Garden, it has been nearly 50 years. For die-hard hoops fans in New York, the situation has been depressing. The New York Knicks have won eight straight games since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":400320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,88],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-413753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-new-york-knicks","tag-charles-barkley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}