Granted it's not a good thing to owe $400,000, but Sir Charles is a rich man. I wonder if he'll bring this up tonight when he does his stint on the NBA Playoffs on TNT. 

LAS VEGAS - Charles Barkley acknowledged he owes a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino and promised Thursday to repay it after a prosecutor said the retired NBA star faced criminal charges. "My mistake," Barkley said in an interview at a pro-am golf tournament in Hoover, Ala. "I'm not broke, and I'm going to take care of it."

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 Barkley was responding to comments by Clark County District Attorney David Roger, who said prosecutors would file a criminal complaint if he did not pay the debt cited by the Wynn Las Vegas resort.

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"He'll have an opportunity like anybody else to make restitution to the hotel," Roger said.

 

The casino alleged in a civil complaint filed Wednesday in a Nevada state court and first reported by the Las Vegas Sun that Barkley failed to repay four $100,000 casino markers, or loans, received last Oct. 18 and 19.

"To date, and despite repeated demands, Barkley has refused to repay the $400,000," the complaint said.

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"I've been gambling 20 years. I've never had this happen before," the 45-year-old Barkley told WJOX. "It's my fault I let the time lapse. I screwed up."

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"All they had to do is call and say, 'Hey, you owe us this money,'" he said.

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 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_sp_bk_ne/bkn_barkley_gambling

Hes gonna be broke one day and its gonna be terribly sad.

I like Barkley so much that I refuse to think he'll be broke. He does seem to have a problem though.

I recall him saying in an interview one time that his gambling is not a problem because he can pay for it.

Barkley's even funny when he's talking about his addiction to gambling!