Charles Barkley on Covid: ‘We’ve Lost So Many People’

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BARKLEY: "It’s just a stupid basketball game. You look at our country, the greatest country in the world.  We lost so many people. How many people have lost their jobs, lost their businesses, lost their house? That’s real life. Death, not having a place to live, your business and your job, that is real life. I’m sad for VCU. I am. But coach is right, it’s just a basketball game. This virus, other than 9/11, is the worst thing that ever happened in my lifetime. I never felt as bad as I did after 9/11 until the last year when you turn on the TV every single day, it’s ‘How many people died today?’ I mean, in none of our lifetimes did we look — like, the first story on every newscast, ’how many people died today', 'how many people got infected.’ It is tough; it’s sad. We lost one of our coworkers here at Turner: Sekou Smith. Great guy, 40-something years old. I lost a high school teammate the week of Christmas. Man, this thing is just sad, and I hope whoever’s got it, I hope they’re safe. But man, this thing is tough."