Sports commentators Skip Bayless and Charles Barkley don’t like each other one bit. Now Skip is claiming that he may have to go to the police, if their feud doesn’t ratchet down, Media Take Out has learned.
Charles Barkley has occasionally crossed the line, in the two men’s feud – by threatening to physically harm Skip over his hot takes. Recently, Charles joined Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on their All The Smoke podcast where he blasted Skip for his relentless criticism of LeBron James. On the latest episode of The Skip Bayless Show, the Fox Sports host responded with an interesting take.
“Charles has been taking shots at me for, I don’t know, 20 years? On various platforms including his own on TNT’s Inside the NBA,” Bayless said. “But at least this time, for the first time ever, Charles didn’t go ‘k-word’ on me. This time, for the first time ever, he did not say that he would like to ‘kill me,’ as he so often has.”
On one of his first podcast episodes, Skip detailed his long-running feud with Barkley. Skip says that he’s asked nicely for the NBA analyst to stop issuing physical threats, claiming they scare his wife, Ernestine.
During a 2021 episode of Inside the NBA, Barkley threatened to put the Fox Sports host in a “body cast,” and during a 2005 interview with The Washington Post, he said he’d like to “kill” Bayless. Barkley has not featured the “k-word” in all of his back-and-forths with Bayless, although the argument can certainly be made that even one physical threat is too much.
“To his credit, this time he did refrain,” Skip said after Barkley didn’t threaten to kill him on the All The Smoke podcast. “I greatly appreciate that. That is progress. Thank God for small favors. Thank you, Charles Barkley. I’d also like to thank Charles for so faithfully watching Undisputed. Charles Barkley might just be our biggest fan!”
Later in the podcast, Skip alluded to the fact that he may have to go to the police, if Barkley continued threatening him.
