Charles Barkley, Michael JordanGetty Images (2) Tap Here To Add Us Weekly As A Trusted Source Add as a preferred source on Google NBA greats Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan have not spoken to each other in more than a decade after a heated phone call over comments Barkley, 62, made on TV. Barkley told the "Tom Tolbert Show" that their 2012 argument was over criticism he leveled at Jordan, 62, as owner of the Charlotte Hornets, then known as the Charlotte Bobcats. "He called me that night and went ballistic on me," Barkley said on the Sunday, December 21 episode.