LIN WANGS DAUGHTER CHARLES BARKLEY UPDATE

Their texts were mostly messages from my dad that ended with an excessive number of exclamation points. But again, as a good millennial, I knew that people have very loose definitions of the word 'friend.'Ībout two years ago, I asked my dad if I could see their texts. He seemed pretty famous - and definitely not like anyone who would be friends with my dad. Like a good millennial, I Googled Charles Barkley. The first time my dad told the story, I didn’t pretend to know who this person was. Whenever we attended dinner parties, my dad would talk about his friend Charles Barkley. 'Well, yeah, he's a top-50 player in the history of the NBA,' he said. My dad told me that he knew about Barkley long before he met him. 'You know, has a big personality,' my dad, Lin Wang, told me last year, when I recorded him talking about Barkley. I said, 'That’s my boy, Lin.' They’re, like, 'How do you know him?' I said, 'It’s a long story.' ' Everybody’s like, 'Who’s the Asian dude over there?' I just started laughing. 'You know, it was obviously a very difficult time,' Barkley told me recently. Charles Barkley and Lin Wang (Courtesy Shirley Wang) In short, he was everyone’s suburban dad.

He worked as a cat litter scientist in Muscatine, Iowa.

Here’s what I can tell you about him: He wore striped, red polo shirts tucked into khaki shorts and got really excited about two-for-one deals. He wasn’t a basketball player, he wasn’t a sports figure, and he wasn’t from Barkley’s hometown. But there was also an unexpected guest.īarkley’s friends couldn’t quite place him. When Charles Barkley's mother, Charcey Glenn, passed away in June 2015, Barkley's hometown of Leeds, Alabama, came to the funeral to pay respects.

LIN WANGS DAUGHTER CHARLES BARKLEY UPDATE

(Editor's note: Check out an update from reporter Shirley Wang.) This story was re-broadcast on September 19, 2020 as part of The Best Of Only A Game.

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