NEW YORK — To Charles Barkley's credit, his capacity for audacity and proclivity for stupidity are unrivaled in NBA annals.

Granted, that covers tons of tainted territory, but Sir Chump tilts the scale of generally every affliction and addition mastered by man.

Judging by how often infatuated journalists contact Barkley for his "valued" opinion, TNT's award-winning class clown and advertising go-to fool has evolved, effortlessly, into the NBA's prized spokesman on any aberrant behavior that comes to mind.