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Charles Barkley criticized nan New Orleans Pelicans connected Saturday arsenic they were swept by nan Oklahoma City Thunder successful their playoff series.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Josh Giddey and Jalen Williams each had astatine slightest 20 points arsenic Oklahoma City won nan game, 106-85. It’s nan first playoff bid nan Thunder person won since they made it to nan NBA Finals successful 2016.
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Charles Barkley connected aerial earlier nan Final Four semifinal crippled betwixt nan Purdue Boilermakers and nan North Carolina State Wolfpack astatine State Farm Stadium connected April 6, 2024, successful Glendale, Arizona. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
As NBA fans would jokingly say, nan Pelicans are headed for a picnic successful Cancun, Mexico. But nan Pelicans were going location worse, Barkley asserted connected TNT, because of really severely nan squad played successful nan bid nonaccomplishment to Oklahoma City. The Basketball Hall of Famer said they were headed for Galveston, Texas.
"Where they going, Chuck?" Shaquille O’Neal asked.
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Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley and Michael Wilbon earlier nan crippled betwixt nan New Orleans Pelicans and Los Angeles Lakers connected Dec. 7, 2023, astatine T-Mobile Arena successful Las Vegas. (Mike Kirschbaum/NBAE via Getty Images)
"Galveston," Barkley responded, starring Shaq to burst retired laughing. "That soiled a-- water. We not moreover gonna nonstop them to Cancun. We’re gonna nonstop them to Galveston wherever that soiled a-- h2o beryllium washing up connected nan shore. You group deliberation they’re astatine nan beach.
"We ain’t sending you to Cancun. Y’all quit. Y’all get down to Galveston. C’mon man. They didn’t moreover try, man. We ain’t giving them nary level summons to nan beach. We nonstop their a-- to Galveston, Texas, correct wherever that soiled h2o washes up connected nan beach. They can’t moreover get successful nan water."
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Oklahoma City will look nan victor of nan bid betwixt nan Los Angeles Clippers and Dallas Mavericks.
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Gordon Hayward of nan Oklahoma City Thunder embraces Jalen Williams and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander during nan playoff crippled against nan Pelicans connected April 27, 2024, astatine nan Smoothie King Center successful New Orleans. (Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty Images)
Dallas leads nan bid against Los Angeles, 2-1.
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