It's Official: Sir Charles Outruns Referee Bavetta

2007/03/01 02:58:58 @NBA.com: News

In THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC, Paul Coro writes “NBA referee Dick Bavetta's 67-year-old legs, making their bare public appearance, could not put a match-race loss on Charles Barkley, but he at least gave the crowd a more improbable Barkley loss - a loss for words. Barkley backpedaled across the half-court and stumbled to the ground in outrunning Bavetta over 3.5 lengths of the court. But he paid the price for his 25.7 seconds of alleged sprinting. Struggling to get his wind back, Barkley passed off TNT announcer Ernie Johnson's first questions to Bavetta. ‘I think we're ready for Barkley-Bavetta II,' said Bavetta, who slid headfirst at the finish.”
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