NBA All-Star 2024: Charles Barkley SAVAGES San Francisco over ‘homeless crooks’… analyst insists you need a ‘bulletproof vest’ to walk around the city on TNT broadcast

Charles Barkley cleared out San Francisco during the NBA All-Star game, claiming the city has a problem with “homeless thugs.”

The former NBA star was part of TNT’s alternate broadcast during Sunday night’s game in Indianapolis, along with Warriors player Draymond Green and ex-Pacers guard Reggie Miller.

While you’re at the microphone at Gainbridge Fieldhouse Indiana, Green initially took a look at the host city.

“Hey Reggie, we love you, let’s not have another All-Star (game) in Indiana. Let’s let this be the last, my friend,” the controversial striker said.

That prompted a brutal response from Barkley, who spent 16 seasons in the NBA with the 76ers, Suns and Rockets.

“Hey Reggie,” Barkley said, “if you had the chance to be out in the cold, or among a bunch of homeless thugs in San Francisco, which one would you take?”

His comment shocked his fellow analysts, to which Green responded, “That’s crazy! You’re not welcome, they won’t let you in!’

But the 60-year-old Alabama native doubled down, adding, “You can’t even walk around there.”

Next year’s All-Star Game will take place at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

Green hit back, insisting: “You can walk around.” But that only prompted another scathing comment from Barkley, who replied, “Yes, with a bulletproof vest.”

It’s not the first time the former forward has criticized San Francisco. During the 2022 Western Conference Finals in Dallas, the roof of the American Airlines Center began leaking.

During the brief rain break, Barkley said, “The bad thing about all this rain is that it doesn’t rain in San Francisco to clean up those dirty streets they got there.”

He added, “San Francisco, it’s a great city, but all this filth and homelessness, you guys need to wipe it all off the streets.”