The Time Charles Barkley was Almost Traded to the Clippers

24 years ago today, Charles Barkley played his first game for the Phoenix Suns, scoring 37 points and pulling down 21 rebounds in a 111-105 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.  Barkley arrived in Phoenix during the 1992 off-season, courtesy of a trade between the Suns and the Philadelphia 76ers.  However, a few months earlier, the Sixers almost made another deal that would have sent their star power forward to the Los Angeles Clippers and forever altered the landscape of NBA history. 

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