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How Spiting On A Little Girl Sitting Courtside Changed Charles Barkley’s Life
“If you play on the edge it’s not a matter of if you go off, but when.”
Barkley and a racist heckler went at it throughout the whole game, but when Barkley tried to spit at the heckler, his spit unfortunately hit a different target, an 8-year old girl. After the game, Barkley told ‘The Philadelphia Daily News’:
“You do stupid things, and stuff like that happens, I just have to live with a stupid mistake. He was walking toward me, and I spit at him. I was tired, and I didn`t have enough foam in my mouth. It went everywhere. I made a mistake.”
Charles Barkley took the suspension like a man, apologized to the girl numerous times, even befriended the girl, giving her and her family tickets to a whole lot of future games.
In an interview with Graham Bensinger, Chuck explaines how this incident changed his life.
