Charles Berkley has hopes for the city of San Francisco after saying that during the NBA All-Star Game airing, where he met Mayor Daniel Luley.
The city was the host of the 2025 NBA All-Star Game. Berkley was in a city lawsuit due to the crime and the homeless population. During the broadcast, he expressed optimism that the city would begin cleaning.
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Chuck's Global Stars general manager Charles Barkley is paying attention to the introduction before the 2025 NBA All-Star Game, which took place at San Francisco's Chase Center on February 16, 2025. (Imaginary of Cary Edmondson-Immagn)
“I scream at the San Francisco people, especially the mayor. I've met the mayor several times. He's been incredible and I hope he can do something about the homeless population,” Berkley said with Team Shaquille O'Neill. Candice Parker spoke during the match between.
Berkley said last month that he would skip the game because it was in San Francisco.
“He's going to create an All-Star team,” Berkley said at the time. “I'm not going. I'm not going to go to that rat infected place in San Francisco.”
Berkley responded to one of her colleagues who called San Francisco “beautiful.”
“San Francisco is not a beautiful city. Rats. Cats.
From left, Shaquille O'Neal, Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley will be recognized during the NBA All-Star basketball game held in San Francisco on Sunday, February 16th, 2025. (AP Photo/godofredo A. Vasquez)
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However, it wasn't the first time he had criticized San Francisco. Last year he tore the city apart during an NBA alternative broadcast of the All-Star Game in Indianapolis.
Barkley asked Reggie Miller to play in the cold in Indianapolis – Miller spent his entire 18-year NBA career – or “around the homeless con man in San Francisco.”
Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green called Berkley “crazy” and said Berkley wasn't “welcome” in the city. Parker said “I love San Francisco,” but Berkley provided a retort.
“No, we don't,” he said. “…I can't even walk around there.”
He later suggested that he could walk around town in a “bulletproof vest.”
Daniel Lully, then chairman of the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee, will speak at a press conference for the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee held at the Moscon Center in San Francisco on February 1, 2016. (Jerry Lai-Usa Today Sports)
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Lurie vowed to make San Francisco streets safe again, build “sufficient housing to change the affordable crisis” and tackle the “medical and behavioral health crisis.”
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