The NBA, as you may already know, is wild. And often that wildness involves not believing things exist at all. Kyrie Irving, for example, says that “not one picture of Earth exists.” And now Charles Barkley says that vegetarians are not real.
The Inside the NBA crew was having a nice, normal conversation about LaMarcus Aldridge and how well he’s playing with Kawhi Leonard out injured. Then Chuck goes off on a tangent where he basically says everyone loves meat and it’s not possible to avoid eating it.
And yes, Chuck’s reasoning is basically like that Vine where the girl argues that vegans don’t exist because we all east spiders in our sleep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SS6aPy0DtM
“He’s one of those guys who makes me nervous,” Barkley said about Aldridge. “I don’t like people who don’t get mad, Ernie. I don’t trust people — like, vegetarians. That’s not a thing. Everybody likes meat. But I don’t like people — it’s not a thing, Ernie. Just because they say it doesn’t make it true.”
Ernie even gave him a chance to correct himself later, but Chuck doubled down on his take that all vegetarians, deep down, love meat.
"There's no such thing as a vegetarian." 😂 pic.twitter.com/S0R6V67Z2y
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) November 3, 2017
“There’s no such thing as a vegetarian,” Barkley said. “Nobody doesn’t like meat, Ernie.”
All that got in response was a very measured sigh from Johnson, who should probably be used to this by now.
