Its hard to compete with Marvin "Bad News" Barnes. Here is a story about him:<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The best News story I know (from either David Halberstam or Frank Powers) involves Barnes sleeping through a team flight. They called him to tell him he was going to miss the flight. "News will catch a later flight," he said. About 5 minutes before tipoff, Barnes shows up. He's dressed in his uniform, and wearing a full-length mink coat. He's also polishing off a Big Mac and fries. "Have no fear... Bad News is here."</div>How about this one:<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>In 1972, ABA basketball legend Marvin "Bad News" Barnes, refusing to board a flight scheduled to leave Louisville, KY at 8 a.m. and land in St. Louis, MO at 7:59 a.m. was quoted as saying:"I ain't goin' on no time machine."</div>He was referring to flying from one time zone to another so that when he landed it was as if time went backward.Bad News was great but I dont think ANYTHING competes with Gilbert Arenas. When he was a rookie he got the normal rookie treatment. One day they sent him out to get a bunch of powdered donuts. He brushed all the powder off and applied baby powder to them. 3-4 guys starting eating the baby powder donuts then they almost throw up. Arenas could not stop laughing.David Robinson on getting hit in a sensitive area by Robert Horry: "It was acouple of swings after the whistle and one caught me in the family jewels.But I got my three kids already, so that's all right."Jordan came down the lane against the Jazz and dunked on John Stockton. Then somebody in the crowd yelled "Dunk on somebody your on size"The very next play he dunked on 6'11 Mel Turpin. Went over to the fan and said "Is he big enough"Shaq said about his recent drop in scoring " I have been playing like Erick Dampier"Steve Francis said he would be called "explosive" too if he were allowed to shoot as much as Gilbert Arenas. With a straight face, Arenas replied: "I'd be called a closet case too if I cried about Cuttino Mobley every night.""That didn't bother me. I am not going to worry about a guy trying to be tough with a pink tie on."- Ben Wallace, on the injured Marcus Fizer acting like he was going to come off the Bulls bench and fight."We're just playing basketball. It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic."- Barkley"I didn't even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee"- Drew Gooden"We try to treat the road like it's a home game. We ain't got no fans at home, neither."- Dion Glover in his Atlanta Hawk daysDon Nelson on Dirk Nowitzki's new crew cut: "I didn't know he was that ugly. I thought he was a pretty good looking fella when he had hair, but, oh my goodness, did that bring out all his bad features or what. He's going to be single all the rest of his life!"At the news conference introducing Alvin Gentry as new coach of the LAClippersQuestion: Didn't you have any friends warning you not to take the job withthe Clippers?Gentry: They all encouraged me to take the job.Question: You don't have any friends, do you?Charles Barkley on teammate Cuttino Mobley: "He's instant offense, onboth ends of the floor, I might add."Mikki Moore [unintentionally explaining Detroit's troubles this season]: "We have to play hard for the full 40 minutes."Informed a game goes for 48 minutes: "48? Oh, that's right. 12-minutequarters."Charles Barkley (Hou) at the start of the press conference followinghis career ending injury where he ruptured the quadriceps tendon in hisleft knee in the Phi-Hou game: "Well guys, I guess that sex is definitely out of the question tonight."Ref Joey Crawford calling a foul on Stokjo Vrankovic (LAC): "Loose ballfoul on whatever the hell his name is."Joe Kleine (Pho): "Charles [Barkley] and I have no-trade clauses. His iswritten in. Mine, well, nobody wants to trade for me."
Another one from Marvin Barnes:I remember hearing this. One time "Bad News" Barnes snorted cocaine well he was sitting on the Celtics bench. He admitted it later on. He said that he put a towel over his face so no one could see him, and then took cocaine.
Here is another one, Bill Russell voted Walt Frazier for the 1969 defensive player of the year award despite being in the running himself.Haha.
The only thing Christian Laettner has in common with Larry Bird is they both pee standing up." -Barkley
