As usual, Charles Barkley doesn’t care what anybody thinks.

Barkley appeared on The Dan Patrick Show this week and while talking about this viral Cardi B joke he made during halftime of Game 3 of the NBA Finals earlier this week was asked if management ever tells him to chill out.

“I’m hoping they fire me,” Barkley quipped. “I got six or seven years left on my contract that they know I’ve got no chance of doing. I would love for them to fire me and have to pay me for the next six or seven years. I was talking to my agent. I was like, ‘What can I do to get fired, but they’d have to pay me for the whole six, seven years?’ I would love to get fired, I’m not gon’ lie.”

Adding, “There’s zero chance that I’mma be working the next six, seven years. Zero. So I know if they fired me, they’d have to pay me all of those years. And I heard through the grapevine that I make great money; so thank goodness for that.”

He then continued by saying that people that can’t take a joke can kiss him on the you know what. “C’mon, man. People can’t take a joke. They can kiss my a–,” he said defiantly. I appreciate and love all the support I’ve gotten all these years, but anybody [that] thinks everybody likes them, they a fool. So, if people don’t like me or don’t have a sense of humor, they can kiss my ass. My whole a–, not just one cheek, the whole a–.”

Earlier this week, on Monday (June 8), the broadcast showed a clip of Cardi’s halftime performance at Madison Square Garden during the NBA Finals, Chuck joked about the Bronx rapper’s cleavage saying, “I don’t know if those Bs. Those might be Cardi Ds. I’m pretty sure those aren’t Bs. She’s got the wrong initials,” which prompted laughter and his co-host Ernie Johnson to say “I don’t know who said that, but I know it wasn’t me.”

Fortunately for Chuck, Cardi is one of those people that could take a joke and retweeted a fan account that highlighted that the term “Cardi D” was trending on X.

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