Charles Barkley never won an NBA championship. Here’s what left him empty-handed.

Why didn’t Charles Barkley win an NBA championship? The simple answers -- “MJ“ and “Hakeem“ -- don’t do justice to the depth of a career spent falling short of the ultimate goal. To really understand why, we need to dig into the teams: the excellent but fading 76ers that drafted Barkley, the brilliant ’90s Suns, and the old late-’90s Rockets. Then we need to dig further into what happened to them -- the injuries, the blown leads, the makes and misses that comprised playoff defeat. Barkley’s individual grea