Charles Barkley rubbed a few people the wrong way when he insisted on TNT's broadcast Thursday night that the Golden State Warriors play "girly basketball" that he's never going to like. Among those disappointed: ESPN's Rachel Nichols.
During her program "The Jump" on Friday, Nichols took Barkley to task for using "girly" as "a substitute word for weak or lame."
"This isn't a PC police thing; I'm not offended in any way," said Nichols, a former colleague of Barkley's at TNT. "This is just about girls out there, who love watching Chuck talk about basketball as much as I do, who shouldn't have to grow up feeling that they are the living, human stand-in definition for being less-than or weak. And frankly, young boys shouldn't be growing up thinking that about girls, either."
Pity poor Tracy McGrady, who had to follow that up.