Charles Barkley Apologizes To Reporter For ‘Tried Joke’

NBA legend and TNT analyst Charles Barkley apologized to Axios political reporter Alexi McCammond for a remark that was “inappropriate and unacceptable.” 

The web then dug up previous tweets exhibiting McCammond’s historical past of inappropriate and unacceptable feedback. 

Based on a number of experiences, McCammond and Barkley had been on the similar bar in Atlanta on Tuesday night (November 19), and plenty of presidential marketing campaign aides had been additionally current. 

A Democratic presidential debate happened in Atlanta on Wednesday (November 20). 

McCammond tweeted that Barkley advised her, “I don’t hit girls but when I did I might hit you.” 

The response from Barkley, in response to McCammond, was associated to a contradiction Barkley made, by which McCammond allegedly referred to as him out for. 

In her Twitter posts, McCammond alleges that Barkley stated he liked Deval Patrick, the previous governor of Massachusetts who’s now within the presidential race. 

Then an official from the marketing campaign of Pete Buttigieg got here by, and Barkley stated how a lot he liked Buttigieg. McCammond stated she reminded Barkley of what he stated about Patrick and that’s when he made the inappropriate remark.

Barkley issued an apology on Wednesday via Turner Sports activities for his “tried joke.”

This being 2019 and the period of social media, when you ever determine to publically name somebody out, proper or improper, something questionable out of your previous could also be used in opposition to you. 

The web site SportsGossip.com unearthed a few of McCammond’s questionable tweets, regardless of her efforts to wash them.

The Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists (NABJ), which awarded McCammond as its “Rising Journalist of the 12 months” in 2018, issued a collection of tweets in response to the controversy.