Richard Jefferson had no patience with Charles Barkley making a negative dig at LeBron James and clapping in a brutal way.
There appears to be a lot of contradictions between the current and previous generations of NBA stars regarding the status of the league today.
Old fashioned players are not fans of modern trends where superstar players team up with each other by forcing them to trade, whether they are free agents.
Meanwhile, modern players believe they have acquired agents to make their own decisions about their careers.
Charles Barkley recently denounced LeBron James and Kevin Durant for the creation of a second apron, saying that frequent moves to create a super team forced the NBA’s hands.
Richard Jefferson appeared on the Lord Trippin podcast to discuss Charles Barkley’s recent claim that LeBron James is responsible for creating a second apron.
He pointed out Berkley’s own history of trying to form a super team, as examples of previous super teams before LeBron James began, as well as the 2004 La Lakers Landing Gary Payton and Carl Malone.
“Charles, honestly, you won two championships, so you literally joined the team with Hakeem Olajuwon.
“And you brought Scotty Pippen, who sounds like Chris Bosch would be on board. Let’s go to Kobe with Shak. When everyone recruited Gary Payton, who was in his Prime, did you recruit Carl Malone?
“Do you remember the second best scorer ever to play Power Forward next to Shaq and his Prime after winning three of the last four championships?”
“Why do we look like LeBron is the first person to join NBA history? We blame everything about LeBron. No, there’s no second apron for LeBron James.”
A popular NBA story is why LeBron James has had a huge rise in the super teams formed in the league.
James’ 2010 decision to join the Miami Heat didn’t even form the only NBA super team at the time. Just three years ago, the Boston Celtics landed Kevin Garnett and Lay Allen to form the Big Three.
That same season, the Los Angeles Lakers landed Powgersol and gave Kobe Bryant an All-Star teammate to compete for the NBA Championship.
The only difference is that in these situations, the NBA teams were putting these players together. What LeBron James did was show players that they could make their own career decisions.