I actually hate how Charles Barkley gets shit for not winning a ring, guy was literally a monster in his prime

People will remember how great a player Charles was, but most people don’t even know who Kelsey Plum is.

The funniest thing is that almost everyone who clicked on this video likely did so almost exclusively because Charles Barkley is in it.

“Kelsey Plum is asking for a raise from a company that can’t afford her.” You nailed it

Never heard one WNBA player say "I'm just thankful the NBA gives us the opportunity to play the game we love for a living."

"It's so hard to tune in and watch WNBA games." She tells no lies. 😂

Charles Barkley is a true gentleman

Bill Burr does an epic bit on the WNBA in his Red Rocks show that is not only hilarious but DEAD-ON the money! Classic.

If the players were to get 50% revenue All the players would owe 83,000

She’s lucky to even speak to Sir Charles. I wouldn’t even know who she was if she walked by.

Only time I ever got to sit courtside was in Houston in 1999. That's when Barkley, Olajuwon and Pippen were all playing together. These guys were legends.

Uh...I believe Charles Barkley's got a championship as a Dream Team gold medalist. A team and event that literally changed the landscape of basketball for the entire world.

I was suffering from debilitating insomnia for many months last year. I went to my Doctor and he prescribed watching a WNBA game just before bedtime. It was like a miracle. It cured me the first night! Thank you WNBA!!!

Did this woman just say that Charles Barkley never won a championship?? While it is true he never won an NBA championship, but he is an Olympian who won a Gold medal in 92. He was on the dream team in 92. Show some respect. He was an animal in his prime. Unstoppable

Charles Barkley is a super star Basketball player, and Kelsey Plum was out of line to say that to Charles.

*Why complain to a man complain to the WOMEN who don’t support y’all*

Why do they never bring up that they’re a non profitable company

I went to a small high school, our girls basketball team was often state champions because they recruited well and had an excellent coach, our boys team was horrible, we had a total of 7 players and our tallest was 6'1. We got destroyed my freshman, sophomore, and junior years. We were just ...horrible. And we would scrimmage the girls team once or twice a week, and we beat the shit out of them by 40-50 points every time..and they were STATE CHAMPIONS...and we went 2-90 over three years in the boys league. In my senior year, it all changed, we had put together a crew of bad asses and we had learned how to play the game, we were tired of losing and we punched back at the boys league hard. We didn't win the championship but we beat teams that were considered some of the best in state and won tournaments no one would have given us a prayer to win. We ended the season 22-7 and got an invite to play in the boys Class C state tourney. We went out first round but still, we had stopped the losing streak and went out with respect. You know what else stopped that year? Scrimmaging the girls team...too many girls with broken jaws, broken arms, and concussions, and they went from losing by 50 to losing by 100. This is why the WNBA will never be a speck on the ass of the NBA in terms of entertainment and intensity. The best a women's team could ever field, could never beat the worst a men's team can field, and God help the girls if they ever played the men's best.....it would send them to the hospital every time.

She talks smack to Charles while he is politely asking her easy questions. He could have asked her if the girls league would survive without the NBA subsidizing it . Or asked her if she thought it would ever make a profit ? Nope… entitled and delusional she insults an NBA legend.

ring or no ring, charles barkley was one of the best ever

99.9999% of the country couldn’t name 3 WNBA teams or players. Even if they lived in a city with a WNBA team, chances are they couldn’t name the team or a player 😂

She’s got a future in politics. She was asked a question and never really answered it.

And Charles should've said to Kelsey, at least I don't get paid to lose 10,000,000 every year.

If the NBA took a few years off, what happens to the WNBA?

Yo I straight up think Ernie asked the question about pay just for his and Charles own personal enjoyment 😂

Realistically, if they got a share of the money that they bring in, they would owe money

Love Bill Burr's comment "No one in the WNBA got covid."

Bill Burr said it best "Sell some fuckin' tickets" simple as that.

They only play 3 months out of the year and get paid 6 figures for the entire year. Technically they have the best job in the world.

"It's so hard to tune-in and watch WNBA games..." - At least she's honest 😂

She is right; It is HARD to tune into a WNBA game. Making a “championship” barb to Barkley is rude. Great player that just didn’t win a Championship.

She's got some nerve. Chuck would destroy her on the court right now at his current age. Hell, I bet I could find 4 other middle-aged dudes who never played above the high-school level and be able to compete with a WNBA team.

Barkley makes more than she does.....and he don't want her championship either!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Whoever that lady was, she was tf out of line.

For her to say that Charles didn't win a ring was totally classless. No one in the WNBA comes even close to his abilities, not even close. And he saying they want a percentage of the profits, when they don't make a profit just shows how stupid she and the rest of the WNBA players really are.

It's like employees asking a bankrupt company for pay raises and guaranteed employment in the face of failing product sales due to public lack of demand

We need someone who appeals to the new generation and the moment you see Clark, Reese, you hate them. There's no pleasing the WNBA

The fact that these ladies actually 12 mill a year combined when their league is way, way in the red, is fucking mind boggling.

She acts as if WNBA championships mean anything. Except for Griner getting arrrested, I've never heard of a single player. I don't watch basketball anymore, but I can name twenty current/retired players off the top of my head starting with Rick Barry from the 1975 Warriors and moving on.

She said "It's so hard to tune in and watch WNBA games" . I agree....

Kudos for rightfully disagreeing with her yet still showing actual WNBA highlights. Would have been fine showing bloopers, but I respect that you refuted her argument while not feeling like you needed to make a mockery of her and her sport

Please pay us more even though nobody watches us or comes to our games.

She's totally disregarding all the fans who faithfully show up to each WNBA game disguised as empty seats. How ungrateful

This has gotten a little ridiculous. They’re blaming society for not supporting something that they just don’t appreciate. You can’t blame society for not liking what you put out. You can’t force people to like your sport. But I love how no one ever mentioned that if they sell $60 million in revenue, they get the same player revenue share as the men do, but they never reached their quota.

Yet, if Charles was in the WNBA, he would have won a ring every single year he played.

She is right, it's hard to watch WNBA games.

*what charles should've said: "if i played in the WNBA I'd win a championship every year until i retire, n if u played in the NBA you'd never make it on the court"*

Most people don’t even know who she is and she’s complaining about not getting commercials.

People would likely to pay to watch Sir Charles Barkley doing podcast or a Krispy Kreme donut eating challenge than to pay a ticket to watch a WNBA game regular season or Playoffs

Be careful Kelsey, you might just end up having to pay to play.

She wish she had the cache and respect Charles has in the basketball community. Man pays you a compliment and your response is to insult him... Good luck on getting that raise

Why do they they always jump defensive about everything? She had no reason to go there with Charles when he was trying to take her seriously with his question?

Chuck should've said "If I played in your league, I'd be mvp and champion til I quit." I'd die laughing if he said that, though he'd probably get cancelled. 😅

Sounds like not enough women watch the WNBA. They should support their ladies more.

To be fair, Kelsey Plum is a recognizable star in the WNBA

Charles should have pointed out he's a Hall of Famer in a league people actually care about and he will be remembered for generations to come. No one knows who this girl is today! Let alone being remembered in the future. These WNBA players need a reality check!

As an athlete you get paid according to the level at which you are entertaining to the masses. Nuf said.

Kelsey plum played against women with a size 6 basketball and no one watching their games while Charles played against micheal Jordan and scottie with packed arenas and a match up remembered for the ages.

Barkley should've said, "Well Kelsey, me not winning a ring in the NBA is equivalent to you winning a ring in the WNBA."

Amazonian woman: "No can slam dunk, but have good fundamentals." Fry: "In other words, BORING." 😂 Futurama.

With the revenues being brought in they need to pay to play. If the NBA pulls their financial support for the WNBA, the league would fold in a day. The league is a money pit and that's a shame.

Her team won a championship? Was that that team who had a parade to honor their victory that literally not one single person attended?

Just unbelievable, I really wish interviewers would stop pussyfooting around and be blunt with any of these WNBA players and ask them "how can you honestly ask for a raise, when you're league loses millions every damn year since your existence?", I've only seen 3 or 4 interviews with any of these players when talking about a pay raise, but nobody has just been straight and to the point with them, I know these players have to know their league loses money every year, but I want one of them to acknowledge it on air and respond, complaining about it isn't going to fix the problem, if anything, the owners may very well throw their hands up and just say we're done with this league. In my opinion, they're looking for sympathy instead of a solution, I might go as far to say that they're hinting at NBA players should pitch in some of their salary in order for them (WNBA players) to make more money. 🙄😮‍💨😤

Bottom line wnba can't sell tickets. Well when you can sell the same amount of tickets as the NBA then you can talk.

Maybe Charles should identify as a WNBA player next season. I would be willing to bet his team would win the championship!

WNBA is just not as popular. I can name at least 10 active NBA players by name, but I cannot name one active WNBA player. That tells you that from a marketing perspective the WNBA is not worth investing for companies looking for brand name recognition.

At least people went to see Charles play, you won a championship in front of maybe 1000 people

What she also hasn't taken into account, is that watching the WNBA makes people lose the will to carry on.

lmao if you want the salary to be the percentage of the revenue, the WNBA ‘stars’ will be paying the NBA

The worst one was Lisa Leslie basically telling the NBA players to give her their money.

If you win a championship in a sport nobody watches , did you really win anything ?

00:37 "It's so hard to like tune in and watch WNBA games" - yeah I can not belive it but I agree with her on something! Finding the motivation to turn on some boring WNBA game really is god damn hard!

I have never met a person....not a single one....that has ever purchased a ticket to a WNBA game. Won a pair of tickets as a door prize once. But I gave them away.

Wait, the WNBA season is only 3 months long? 😂

It starts with BEING ENTERTAINING

These women are DELUSIONAL

Charles: my opponent was jordan what about you

I’m from the UK, not a huge basketball fan but have casually watched the odd game over 30 years. I know exactly who Charles Barkley is but I couldn’t tell you one WNBA player

I agree...IT IS extremely difficult to watch a WNBA game.

Agreed, no NBA handouts included to keep them afloat!

The NBA should be getting more national commercials especially here in the states.

When a WNBA player try to disrespect Charles Barkley with the NBA Championship ring thing is ridiculous. Charles Barkley is a top 50 NBA All time Great. He won an Olympic Gold medal, he is a NBA Hall of Famer. He is still revelent to this day from the 80's to which he first started with the Philadelphia 76'ers to a NBA analyst. Kenny Smith has won NBA titles but his personality isn't bigger than Barkley's . Charles Barkley is that guy now. Don't get it twisted.

Not just a bad league, but also filled with bad thinkers. 😅😂

I try to watch WNBA games once in a while, but I have to admit 10 minutes is the most time I can watch. Charles was very easy on this woman after she disrespected him. At his age, he would probably beat her in a 21 game, 21 to 4. Have some respect woman. Charles is a legend.

Hell, I agree with Kelsey ..... Give them 25%, 50%, or even 100% of all WNBA generated revenue. As we all know, a percentage of nothing is still nothing!

When i was younger they had WNBA games on all the time. They tried to push it so hard. The stands were always empty. These girls make more than i do to play game. I can’t believe how entitled they are.

No one hates on Dan Marino for not winning the SB and hes a top 5/6 QB in the SB era.

The first thing I would ask Kelsey is has she read the women's player association agreement with the WNBA, if she had or at least got a summary of it she would know that percentage increase is tied to a specific increase in revenue. Also, alot of the agreements that the WNBA has is tied to the NBA and not by their own market worth along with the NBA giving the WNBA 10 million every year directly. People need to remember that the life time channel drop the WNBA for poor rating. If I was in charge the first thing I would do is make all the teams play in College gyms because playing in NBA arenas is not a good look because of the lack of fans (even with them giving away tickets sell out are few and far between - a packed 1000 seat arena is better than having only 1000 fans in 15000 seat arena). The second thing I would do is look at all the cities that the teams are in and would consider moving teams to more women's basketball friendlier markets where there is a built in audience for woman's basketball. I would even consider folding the city team based concept and basing all the games out of one or two hubs cities (one on the east coast and the other on the west coast - I would actual pick Vegas and Florida). Lastly the fact that they are asking for more pay when WNBA has never made a profit is crazy.

Im really shocked that wnba dont suspend their players like nba did

I'm not even a Basketball fan but she was way out of line with a comment to CB like that . How disrespectful? The guy is a legend .

Barkley was a phenomenal player and a beast. He should have responded, "Well honey, if you give people something worth watching like I did, then they'll watch," and dropped the mic before walking off.

That is such a chicken shit move for her to insult Chuck for not winning a championship. All he did was ask her if they could repeat. Frankly, it was probably just a courtesy questions, because I'm quite sure he doesn't really care. It'd be different if Shaq, Jordan, Magic, Isiah, or Bird said that to Chuck. They carried their NBA teams to championships. Few if anyone actually knows who she is. The rest of it is just obvious. You can't share profits that don't exist. They could share debts. Let's see if she'd care to cover some of the WNBA's annual losses. She comes across as pathetic in this interview. Chuck has the class to hold back on her, not because he respects her, but because he knows she couldn't take it if he disrespected her in the same way.

12 million? The WNBA does not deserve 12 million they deserve less.

I would actually like to see the 60 year old Dream Team of 1992, play against the best WNBA players. The 60 year old men will still win.

Why do you never hear a WNBA player talk about how they can improve their leagues profit so they can get a pay raise? A lot of them think they are on par with the NBA so they deserve more pay when they don’t do anything to help promote their sport. Also I don’t think she was joking about Sir Charles not winning a championship, she was taking a shot at him and it just shows hot highly they think of themselves when they cannot make their league profitable after 20 plus years. Charles was a beast when he played and is more of a player than any of the WNBA.

A literal unknown athlete shitting on Charles Barkley, now that's rich.

Charles Barkley still has the one ring to rule them all.... A *Hall of Fame* ring!

The simple fact is that the lowest NBA team for attendance drew one an d a half times as many fans as the WNBA team with the highest attendance. !5,000 average NBA least attendance, 10,000 average WNBA most attended team.

The consumer doesn't want the WNBA. The only reason it's still around is the teams don't want the back lash of ending it.

You dont get a revenue share if the wnba loses money every year. 😂😂😂 1:54