Throughout his illustrious career, Charles Barkley enjoyed relative success and fame as an NBA superstar. By using his dominant strength and athleticism despite being undersized as a 6-foot-4 power forward, he captured multiple individual and international accolades that immortalized his name as one of the game’s greatest.
Yet despite these, a championship has been critically missing in Chuck’s Hall of Fame resumé, and his failure to deliver one for the Phoenix Suns stands as his biggest regret.
“The only thing I ever felt bad about to be honest with you is I couldn’t win the Suns a championship,” he confessed to Shannon Sharpe in the latest episode of Club Shay Shay Podcast . “Because in Philly, they had [three], in Houston they had [two]. I have always felt bad that I wasn’t able to bring a championship to Phoenix because that’s my home.”
A painful Finals collapse in ‘93
As it is, “Sir Charles” can only wonder about his time in the Valley, as he and the Suns were one of the NBA’s historic “What-Ifs” and amongst the few key best teams to never win it all.