“There’s a Christiana Mall in Delaware that I used to always go by. “Well, she’s named after a mall in fairness,” he said.
He said Sydney wasn’t in the running for his daughter’s name because he didn’t start liking it until after her birth.īut he then revealed how he got the name, Christiana. “If I ever had another girl, I was gonna name her Sydney,” he said on the Dec. "You named your daughter after a mall?" ?Ĭhuck tells Ernie how he got his daughter's name ➡️ /lrLjqETpgQ- NBA on TNT December 9, 2021Ĭharles Barkley recently appeared on his podcast, The Steam Room, with his fellow Inside the NBA star, Ernie Johnson, and during the show, he revealed his love for the name Sydney. So, she did a really good job.”īut back when Chuck was figuring out a name for his pride and joy, he remembered his love for a particular mall. And she chose cheaper wedding and a really nice gift. “She can be stupid and use all of the money on her wedding, or she can get a really nice wedding gift. “I gave her a choice,” Barkley said on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this year. Just because she’s the daughter of a wealthy NBA legend, though, doesn’t mean her dad gave her everything she wanted for her wedding. | Lisa O’Connor/AFP via Getty ImagesĪs mentioned above, Charles Barkley has only one child, Christiana, who was born in 1989 when Chuck was playing in the NBA on the Philadelphia 76ers.Īccording to The New York Times, she is “the director of writing and senior account manager at the Koppelman Group, a college consulting company.” And she married Ilya Hoffman earlier this year during NBA All-Star weekend. Who is Charles Barkley’s daughter? Charles Barkley at the 2019 NBA Awards on June 24, 2019. Yes, Barkley named his daughter after a shopping mall. Instead, Sir Charles leaned on his love for a random location in Delaware: a mall. However, some things are better left unsaid, and Chuck should have kept his latest admission about the inspiration for his daughter’s name to himself.īarkley didn’t name his only child, Christiana, after a relative, nor did he look through some book for ideas. Let’s appreciate the NBA Hall of Famer while we still have him.Charles Barkley’s unfiltered personality on TNT is a major reason his show Inside the NBA has been so successful. Television will be a lot less entertaining when Chuck is off the airwaves. I’ve heard that spiel before, but he’s gonna be here till the wheels fall off.” It’s what we’ve been doing, and we need each other. I’m convinced that if I’m retired and I don’t do nothing, I will falter away. “He’s never gonna quit,” O’Neal told the “ Marchand and Ourand” podcast in November. Shaq is not buying into Barkley’s retirement chatter: I don’t want to be sitting inside over fat-ass Shaq to drop dead.” I want to die on the golf course or somewhere fishing. I’ll be 61 years old if I finish out my contract.
But I just don’t feel the need to work until the day I die. “I love Ernie, Kenny, Shaq and everybody we work with. “It’s been a great, great thing,” Barkley continued. Barkley, 59, says he has 2 years left on his contract "and that's probably going to be it for me." ….Įither way, Barkley, who turns 59 on Sunday, said he’ll be ready to be done. Per Townsend, Barkley said that his contract runs out in two years, which would be at the end of the 2023-24 season.Īccording to Turner Sports, the deal Barkley and his TNT set mates Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal signed in 2015 actually runs through 2024-25.Īt the end of the call, Barkley was asked how much longer he'll continue to be a broadcaster. “And that’s probably going to be it for me,” Barkley said.
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