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Charles Barkley
Sign in to saveAlso known as Charles Wade Barkley, Sir Charles, Chuck Barkley, The Round Mound of Rebound, The Chuck Wagon, The Chuckster, Chuck, The Prince of Pizza
American basketball player
Charles Barkley is an American basketball player who became one of the sport's most dominant and respected athletes during his career. He matters because of his significant impact on professional basketball, both through his performance as a player and his continued influence on the sport as a commentator and public figure.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1963
- Works
- 7
Top works
- The definitive word on Michael Jordan
- Hockeys Original 6 Great Players Of The Golden Era
- Who's afraid of a large black man?
- I may be wrong but I doubt it
- Outrageous!
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Leeds - Alabama - USA
Charles Wade Barkley is an American retired professional basketball player.
Known for
- 4.7 Seconds: For the Championship — Himself2026
- Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association — Self2026
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)2025
- We Beat the Dream Team — Self2025
- Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special — Self2025
- Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott — Self2025
- They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce — Self2025
- Make History: The Revival of Bruce Pearl and Auburn Basketball2024
- Stand — Self - Suns Forward (archive footage)2023
- Bill Russell: Legend — Self (archive footage)2023
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1963
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,730,997
- Total plays
- 44,830,865
Tags
Gnarls Barkley is an alternative/soul group which formed in 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The group consists of CeeLo Green (vocals) and Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton (multiple instruments). The group is best known for the international smash hit "Crazy". "Crazy" - which was their first single - debuted at #1 on the British pop charts on April 2, 2006. It was the first #1 UK single to be obtained solely through Internet downloads. The success <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gnarls+
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,193x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,755x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,431x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,871x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I am not a role model. I’m not paid to be a role model. I’m paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.”
- “I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.”
- “I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I have no character.”
- “You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.”
- “Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.”
- “Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- _Retired Basketball
- Position
- Power Forward
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
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Encyclopedic overview
Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player who is a television analyst on TNT Sports and CBS Sports. Nicknamed "Sir Charles", "the Chuckster", and "the Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Though shorter than the typical power forward, he used his strength and aggression to become one of the NBA's best rebounders and scorers. Barkley was an 11-time NBA All-Star, 11-time member of the All-NBA Team, and the 1993 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams.
An All-American at Auburn University, Barkley was drafted as a junior by the Philadelphia 76ers with the fifth pick of the 1984 NBA draft. In his rookie season, Barkley was named to the All-Rookie First Team in 1985. In the 1986–87 season, Barkley led the league in rebounding average and earned his first rebounding title. He was named the All-Star Game MVP in 1991, and in 1993 with the Phoenix Suns, he was voted the league's MVP while leading the team to the NBA Finals. He also competed in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, winning two gold medals as a member of the U.S. national team. In 2000, Barkley retired as the fourth player in NBA history to achieve 20,000 points, 10,000 rebounds, and 4,000 assists. Barkley is a two-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, inducted in 2006 for his individual career and in 2010 as a member of the 1992 Olympic "Dream Team".
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