Charles Barkley hopes that Mayor San Francisco can “do something about the homeless population”
Charles Barkley He has hope for the city of San Francisco after a broadcast of NBA aired NBA, who met with Mayor Daniel Lurie, during the NBA All-Star broadcast.
The city hosted in 2025. NBA All-Star games. Barkley was in the case of a city for his crime and homeless man. During the show, he expressed some optimism that the city would start to clean.
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Chuck’s Global Director General Charles Barkley watches during the introduction before the NBA All Star game at the Chase Center in San Francisco in San Francisco on February 16, 2025. (Cary Edmondson-Imagn Pictures)
“Shout to the people of San Francisco, especially the mayor. I have met the mayor several times several times. He was amazing and hope we can do something about the homeless population,” Barkley said during the match between the Shaquille O’Neal team and the Candace Parker team.
Barkley said he would skip the game last month because it was in San Francisco.
“They’ll make a team all-star,” Barkley said at the time. “I’m not going. I’m not going to that place abandoned by a rat in San Francisco.”
Barkley responded to one of his colleagues, who calls San Francisco “Beautiful.”
“San Francisco is not a beautiful city. Rats. Cats. You won’t make me like San Francisco. No. No, no, no, no”
From left to right, Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley stand in the middle ground that will be awarded during the NBA basketball game All-Star on Sunday, February 16, 2025 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
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However, he was far from criticizing San Francisco for the first time. Last year, he torn off the city during the NBA alternative All-Star game show, which took place in Indianapolis.
Barkley asked Reggie Miller who would choose: playing in the cold in Indianapolis-where Miller spent the entire 18-year-old NBA career and “was around a bunch of homeless thieves in San Francisco.”
The Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green called Barkley “Crazy” and said that Barkley was not “welcome” in town. Parker said, “We love San Francisco,” but Barkley offered a retort.
“No, no,” he said. “… you can’t even go down there.”
He later suggested that you could walk through the city with a “bullet vest”.
The then Chairman of the Committee for Host Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference of the Super Bowl 50 Committee Committee at the San Francisco Moscone Center, February 1, 2016. (Jerry Lai-Ussa today sports)
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Lurie He vowed to make San Francisco Streets Safe again, build “enough residential buildings to reverse our accession crisis” and solve “our crisis of medication and behavior”.
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