Charles Barkley by no means holds again when he has an opinion, and he might need channeled each Knicks fan when he requested Karl-Anthony Cities one query after the Knicks’ Sport 5 win over the Pacers on Thursday night time.
Throughout “Inside the NBA” after the sport, the Knicks star was sitting down with Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Shaquille O’Neal and Barkley when the latter requested concerning the fouls Cities at all times appears to take.
“I gotta say something now, I gotta criticize you,” Barkley began off saying. “Yo man, why you be getting these dumb fouls?”
O’Neal jumped in saying, “I was going to ask the same question.”
“Why do you do that?” Barkley continued.
“God only knows,” Cities replied with a smile and snort earlier than Barkley continued on his diatribe about Cities’ foul points.
Foul bother has been part of the narrative surrounding KAT through the postseason and, particularly, this sequence with the Pacers.
Within the five-game sequence, Cities recorded 4 fouls in Sport 1, three fouls in Sport 2, 5 in Sport 3, 4 in Sport 4 and 5 in Sport 5.
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“Because when you got your fourth foul, they took you out. [The Pacers] made a run,” Barkley stated. “You gotta stop doing that.”
“I gotta do a much better job, I gotta do a much better job at that,” Cities acknowledged.
“You can get fouls, like the other day when you just grabbed somebody by the wrist,” Barkley continued.
The purpose was made concerning the foul bother that the Knicks star appears to seek out himself getting referred to as for.
“You ain’t wrong,” Cities stated. “It hurts our team.”
The Knicks got here away with a vital win that helped maintain the sequence alive and drive a Sport 6 in Indianapolis on Saturday.
Cities completed with 24 factors on 50 p.c capturing from the sector, whereas additionally flattening 13 rebounds.
