Drexler and other witnesses said the action was unprovoked. Suddenly, Feliciano noticed that, when Lugo and his group looked to be exiting the bar, ice cubes were flung at the table where Charles and his friends were sitting-not hitting anyone but bothering the women standing around the NBA legends. Feliciano said the conversation that night was filled with basketball and laughter. In the middle of his police academy training, Jerry Colon had gone out to get his mind off the grueling program and happened to find himself next to Charles’s table. Jeffery Williams, an off-duty cop working at the bar that night, recalled that all seemed calm as people were exiting. He was also undocumented and had been arrested ten times in the city, according to the Orlando Sentinel, including one time in which Lugo allegedly told police that his name was “Pancho Villa.” A twenty-year-old construction laborer, Lugo was essentially living on the streets when he wasn’t trying to make whatever money he could to send back to his family. The players asked Feliciano to join them.Īlso at the bar was Jorge Lugo, who was not of legal drinking age but had partied with six-packs of beer all day with a group of friends following a big soccer match. While there, the two ran into Gilbert Feliciano, a thirty-year-old Spanish reggae performer, whom they had met through actor Wesley Snipes while he was filming the action thriller Passenger 57.
In town for a preseason game against the Magic the next night, Charles and Drexler posted up at the popular bar to unwind on a Sunday night, which meant the guard kept to himself while Charles signed autographs, took photos, and bought drinks for strangers who wanted to buy him a beer. Known for its stained-glass windows, Top 40 playlist, and Nickel Beer Night, Phineas Phogg’s made the area at the time a premier destination for party people of all backgrounds looking to have fun or make bad choices. In the following excerpt from his new book Barkley: A Biography, author Timothy Bella revisits the night that one of the greatest players in NBA history tossed a man through a plate glass window.Ĭharles had settled into Phineas Phogg’s at Church Street Station, the entertainment district in downtown Orlando, with Clyde Drexler and five or six young female friends at around 11:00 p.m. What happened next remains one of the most notorious off-the-court incidents of Barkley’s career-one that’s still brought up regularly to Barkley on Inside the NBA, the TNT show on which Barkley has long served as an analyst. As his second campaign with the Rockets was about to tip off, the hard-partying Barkley found himself in an Orlando nightclub with Drexler. But his first season in Houston had ended in disappointment once again when the Rockets were knocked out by the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference finals. Barkley was chasing the NBA title that had eluded him. A year earlier, he’d been traded to the Houston Rockets, where he teamed up with fellow Hall-of-Famers Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. All hands on deck.In late October 1997, Charles Barkley was about to begin the 14th season of his NBA career. Cause I can only get so skinny by Saturday man. "I've been really working out hard because apparently they gotta pick me up in a chair," Charles told host Jimmy Kimmel, who inquired if Christiana's future husband is Jewish.Ĭonfirming, Charles added with a laugh, "Listen, I need all Jewish people on deck, brother.
#CHARLES BARKLEY DAUGHTER BOOTY PROFESSIONAL#
While appearing virtually as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday evening, the 58-year-old former professional basketball player spoke candidly about his daughter Christiana Barkley's special day, which is set for this weekend.Ĭalling Christiana "the most important thing" in his life, the Inside the NBA analyst said he is "so excited" for his daughter, 38, and his future son-in-law, Ilya Hoffman, noting that he even lost weight for the occasion. Charles Barkley is looking forward to a very special moment in his daughter's life - her upcoming wedding day!
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