If you’d have bet Charles Barkley would become the spokesman for the city of Cleveland, you’d have assured your family’s financial security for decades. In calling James’ departure from the Cavaliers a “punk move,” in using the same basic term to describe the gyrating of James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh at their introduction in Miami, Barkley has endeared himself to Cavaliers fans in ways no one ever thought possible. Not long ago, Barkley was the bane of Cleveland for reasons real and imagined. Some thought he held a grudge against the city after getting dragged back to town as part of a civil trial in 1997 stemming from a fight in the Flats when Barkley was a member of the Phoenix Suns.
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