“He should have been his own man from the beginning,” Barkley told ESPN. “You can’t let your family members piggyback off your success. This thing has been a disaster from day one. It was never going to work, and I feel bad. His big mouth … dad has put his kid in an awkward situation all year. I don’t want to see anything bad happen to the kid, but I don’t like his dad at all, and this thing has been a joke from the beginning.”