![]() Despite her successful career, most people know her as the daughter of NBA legend Charles Barkley. ![]() I was blessed to know him - and know you, too.Christiana Barkley worked as a sales assistant at Turner Sports. “Your dad prepared you to take care of yourself,” he told Shirley. Barkley told her he, too, had a daughter and they bonded over family. Shirley Wang later called Barkley wanting to know what drew him to her father. “Just hearing about him at the funeral - what he had accomplished and what he was trying to help other people accomplish, just made me even - I wished he bragged more about himself.” “It gives me great memories and great joy to know that I was a friend of his,” Barkley said to Shirley. A few days later, Shirley got to meet her dad’s unlikely friend.īarkley showed up at the funeral. When he died, Shirley went through his phone and texted all his friends, letting them know. In 2016, Lin Wang developed tumors around his heart. I made it through one paragraph.Ĭarry on Charles Barkley - Kenny Mayne December 15, 2018 She was busy so she asked I read it to her. Told my wife of it and said she had to read it. For your dad to take the time to come to the funeral meant a great deal to me.” Lin Wang died in 2018 “It ain’t easy to get to those places,” Barkley said. Everybody’s like, ‘Who’s the Asian dude over there?’ I just started laughing and I said, ‘That’s my boy, Lin.’ They’re, like, ‘How do you know him?’ I said, ‘It’s a long story.'”īarkley was appreciative of Wang making the trip. “You know, it was obviously a very difficult time,” Barkley said to her. In Shirley’s piece on, she recalled what Barkley told her about the funeral. He worked as a cat litter scientist in Muscatine, Iowa.” She described her father as one who “wore striped, red polo shirts tucked into khaki shorts and got really excited about two-for-one deals. Shirley Wang told the story of her dad attending the funeral and causing a bit of a scene. See also: Charles Barkley and Lin Wang - December 15, 2018Ĭharles Barkley’s mother died in June of 2015, and Lin Wang flew to Alabama to pay his condolences. The quality of being humane kindness benevolence. If I’m in town, we’ll hang out and have a good time.'” Lin Wang showed up to Charles Barkley’s mother’s funeral in 2015 He said, ‘Whenever you’re in Atlanta, New York City, or Phoenix, check out with me. “He said the same thing to me, and he left the phone number. “Certainly, I told him I had a good time talking with him, hanging out with him,'” she recalled her dad saying. Shirley recalled her dad telling her the story. And then we actually went back to the bar and just sit there and talked for another couple of hours. Let’s go to dinner.’ It turned into a two-hour dinner. Before we know it, we looked at each other, like, ‘Yo, man, I’m hungry. And we just sit down and started talking. “And me and your dad were the only two people in there. “I was just sitting at the bar,” Barkley told Shirley. It was also a story she wanted to tell because her dad was so proud of his friendship with the NBA legend. Shirley Wang, Lin’s daughter, shared the story on WBUR back in December of 2018 as a way of grieving over her dad’s death. The two were the only people at the hotel bar and that’s when the friendship developed. Lin Wang was also in Sacramento on a business trip. NBA legend Charles Barkley was in Sacramento, California, in 2014, speaking at a charity event. Charles Barkley and Lin Wang met by chance in California LAKE TAHOE, CA – JULY 15: NBA legend Charles Barkley stands with firefighters at the American Century Championship Golf Tournament at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Lake Tahoe, Nevada on J(Photo by Michael Bezjian/WireImage) His untimely death in 2018 sparked several memories of that improbable friendship with one of the most recognized NBA players of all time. Lin was diagnosed with a rare form of heart cancer at 51 and died two years later. By fate, they met in a California hotel bar in 2014, and that chance meeting developed into an unlikely friendship. Barkley was a 6-foot-6 NBA legend, while Lin was a 5-foot-6 chemist from Iowa. It was just the two of them, Charles Barkley and Lin Wang.
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