
Johnson, of course, had a good laugh and then added: “You’re a mess, man.”Ī mess, indeed, but you got to love Chuck. Sir Charles then responded: “I don’t know. You named your daughter after a mall? … Why?” he asked. He was just as stunned by the revelation as probably many of their listeners were when they heard it. That’s how she got her name, Christiana.” “There’s a Christiana Mall in Delaware that I used to always go by. “Well, she’s named after a mall in fairness,” he said. He said Sydney wasn’t in the running for his daughter’s name because he didn’t start liking it until after her birth.īut he then revealed how he got the name, Christiana. “If I ever had another girl, I was gonna name her Sydney,” he said on the Dec. "You named your daughter after a mall?" ?Ĭhuck tells Ernie how he got his daughter's name ➡️ /lrLjqETpgQ- NBA on TNT December 9, 2021Ĭharles Barkley recently appeared on his podcast, The Steam Room, with his fellow Inside the NBA star, Ernie Johnson, and during the show, he revealed his love for the name Sydney. So, she did a really good job.”īut back when Chuck was figuring out a name for his pride and joy, he remembered his love for a particular mall. And she chose cheaper wedding and a really nice gift. “She can be stupid and use all of the money on her wedding, or she can get a really nice wedding gift. “I gave her a choice,” Barkley said on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this year. Just because she’s the daughter of a wealthy NBA legend, though, doesn’t mean her dad gave her everything she wanted for her wedding.

| Lisa O’Connor/AFP via Getty ImagesĪs mentioned above, Charles Barkley has only one child, Christiana, who was born in 1989 when Chuck was playing in the NBA on the Philadelphia 76ers.Īccording to The New York Times, she is “the director of writing and senior account manager at the Koppelman Group, a college consulting company.” And she married Ilya Hoffman earlier this year during NBA All-Star weekend. Who is Charles Barkley’s daughter? Charles Barkley at the 2019 NBA Awards on June 24, 2019.

Yes, Barkley named his daughter after a shopping mall. Instead, Sir Charles leaned on his love for a random location in Delaware: a mall. However, some things are better left unsaid, and Chuck should have kept his latest admission about the inspiration for his daughter’s name to himself.īarkley didn’t name his only child, Christiana, after a relative, nor did he look through some book for ideas. Charles Barkley’s unfiltered personality on TNT is a major reason his show Inside the NBA has been so successful.
