Overview
- Charles Barkley, speaking Wednesday on ESPN 1000’s Waddle & Silvy, said Vince Coleman called him from The Grove XXIII and put Michael Jordan on the line.
- The brief conversation led them to agree to meet after the NBA season for a few days of golf at Jordan’s private course in Florida.
- Barkley had first disclosed Friday on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Unleashed that he and Jordan had recently spoken and were back on speaking terms.
- He said the years-long break was stubborn silence rather than animosity and that both men expressed they still have love for each other.
- Reports trace the rift to Barkley’s 2012 criticism of Jordan’s Charlotte Bobcats ownership on the same Chicago station, and Jordan has not publicly confirmed Barkley’s new account.