By Mallory Mattingly
Former NBA legends Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan are ready to forgive each other and play a round of golf.
According to PEOPLE, Jordan initially unfriended Barkley for a comment Barkley “made about Jordan’s ownership of the Charlotte Hornets. But now, Barkley has said the former friends may put their feud to rest.”
“We had a conversation,” Barkley said on Sirius XM’s Mad Dog Unleashed. “We’re going to get together and play golf as soon as basketball is over.”
“We’re not like Prince William and Prince Harry,” he joked. “We’ve always had a lot of love for each other, but we talked, actually, in the last 72 hours. We decided to get together and play golf as soon as basketball is over.”
“We’re not like Prince William and Prince Harry.”
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The long feud is over. Charles Barkley tells @MadDogUnleashed that him and Michael Jordan are speaking again and they are playing golf when the NBA season ends. pic.twitter.com/YnAxcM5CYl
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) April 17, 2026
PEOPLE reported, “Barkley said in February 2023 that he hadn’t spoken to Jordan — who purchased the then-Charlotte Bobcats in 2006 and sold his majority stake in 2023 —in the ten years since the Chicago Bulls icon felt dissed by Barkley’s criticism.”
While on the “All The Smoke” podcast with Matt Barnes, Barkley recalled the feud that caused Jordan to go “ballistic,” remembering that Jordan called him and cursed him out.
“I said, ‘Man, I gotta do my job.’ We haven’t spoken since that night,” Barkley shared.
Barkley is an NBA ON PRIME analyst and felt that when he made the comments about Jordan’s stake in the Charlotte Hornets organization, he was just doing his job.
“I love the guy and miss the guy, but I gotta do my job,” Barkley said before adding, “I think I’m fair to everybody.”
“The hardest thing about being famous is that you’re paying all the bills, they’re on your private jet, and they’re not going to tell you when you’re doing something wrong,” he continued. “I love Michael, but he just has not done a good job. Even though he is one of my great friends, I can’t get on here and tell you he’s done a great job. He has not done a great job, plain and simple.”
In 2022, Barkley said he’d tell Jordan, “What I said, I believed. I’m sorry you took offense to it. And let’s get past this…and get back to playing golf and having fun.”
Hopefully the two can make amends and put their friendship back together.
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