: LAS VEGAS (AP) – Charles Barkley acknowledges he owes a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas casino.
The 45-year-old former NBA star also promised to repay it after a prosecutor said he would face criminal charges if he didn’t.
Asked about the debt, Barkley says it was his mistake for letting it debt lapse, adding, “I’m not broke, and I’m going to take care of it.”
Earlier today, Clark County, Nevada, District Attorney David Roger said prosecutors would file a criminal complaint if Barkley didn’t pay the debt cited by the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
The casino alleged in a civil complaint filed yesterday that Barkley failed to repay four $100,000 casino markers, or loans, received last October.
Barkley played 16 NBA seasons, including a stint with the Phoenix Suns. He’s now a basketball analyst for TNT.
I saw this fool on TV saying he has no debt problems. EXCUSE me! If you have a gambling debt like this, you're an addict. If you can't pay that debt, you're having some financial problems.
His NBA career is over. What is he thinking? That money will continue to come out of the NBA sneaker? I believe this will open up a door to see other addicted former athletes too.
GOOD. I CANT STAND THIS MAN WITH HIS BLONDE WOMEN SELF. HE IS SOOO *** AND ARROGANT TOO. LOSER. HE need to loose around 40 lbs, looking like a *** FISH with his PEA sized head. *** and ladies who told these brothas they were ALL THAT anyway? Wesley Snipes got red eyes and a weird square head, OJ looks busted, KOBE's head looks like a somalian, and Barkley looks like an overweight puffer fish.. SMH.. LOL>> we get mad because they dissing us for white women but heck I don't know too many black sistas that would want their BUSTED TAILS. REAL TALK
Charles Barkley is a public figure so his business is everybodies business. He makes me sick. He spent his post NBA carrer *** his mouth off about all kinds of issues he knows nothing about. I've always felt he was nothing but a white man's buffoon. Now he's a broke buffoon. I wonder how many white women he'll get with no money. I agree with the poster BeReal above, he's nobodies role model now! lol