A lot of noise has been made in recent days about whether or not Darvin Ham and Frank Vogel deserved to be fired for what transpired this season with the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns, respectively. Ham has been on the hot seat ever since the Lakers won the first-ever NBA In-Season Tournament in December due to their inability to remain a consistent championship threat and the fact that they lost to the Denver Nuggets in five games during the first round of the playoffs. In the desert, Vogel and the Suns concluded their first year of the Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, and Devin Booker trio by being swept in the first round at the hands of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
As the Lakers and Suns evaluate their immediate futures and the status of their two head coaches, Hall of Famer Charles Barkley gave his bold take on Wednesday night during TNT’s Inside the NBA regarding both coaches remaining with their respective teams for the 2024-25 season.
“We watch all the games and all of the talk shows. A lot of these people on television, they’re cowards because they want the players to like them. They don’t want to do their job, which is to tell the truth,” Barkley adamantly claimed. “I just want to say this about coaching: Anybody who thinks the reason the Lakers suck is because of Darvin Ham or the reason the Suns suck is because of Frank Vogel, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Frank Vogel is a hell of a coach. Darvin Ham is a hell of a coach trying to get his career started.
For all of you punks, idiots, and jacka**es on other networks, who want to be media that want all the players to like y’all, do your damn jobs. The Lakers suck, and the Suns suck because of the players. It has nothing to do with the coaches.”
Barkley went on to claim that whoever put “them trash a** teams together” should be the ones met with the brunt of the force regarding all of these recent firing rumors.
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