Carlisle, the longtime NBA head coach, has received endless praise over the offseason as he's helped lead the Pacers through the Eastern Conference and now to a lead in the NBA Finals over the league's best regular season team. Barkley's only kidding, but with how the Knicks have went about their coaching search, don't put anything past them.

"The Knicks got to be the stupidest damn people in the world” - Charles Barkley sounds off on the New York Knicks originally appeared on Basketball Network.

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