{"id":1388921,"date":"2021-07-25T17:55:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1388921"},"modified":"2021-07-25T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T21:55:12","slug":"charles-barkley-created-international-incident-during-dream-team-first-game-1992-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/charles-barkley-created-international-incident-during-dream-team-first-game-1992-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Barkley Created an International Incident During the Dream Team's First Game at the 1992 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If there's one thing we've known about Charles Barkley<\/a> over the years, it's that he's always marched to the beat of his own drum. While I truly never thought I'd mention him in the same sentence with Frank Sinatra, Barkley has channeled “Ol' Blue Eyes” throughout his entire career, both as a player and a broadcaster, in the sense that he does things his way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not everyone has agreed with his behavior at certain times, even his own teammates and colleagues, but we're guessing the 11-time NBA All-Star<\/a> really doesn't care. Barkley famously said back in the day that he shouldn't be a role model and there were certainly plenty of times when he didn't. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One such instance came during his run with the Dream Team<\/a> in 1992 when he created an international incident during the squad's first Olympic game against the African nation of Angola. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Barkley elbowed an Angolan player in the chest during the Dream Team's first game at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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