![]() In the National Basketball Association (NBA), Barkley spent 16 seasons with three different teams. He is a former professional basketball player from the United States who now works as a TNT television analyst. The next time you visit the Christiana Mall, you can picture the gears in Charles Barkley's head turning as he decided, "If I ever have a daughter, I'm going to name her after this fine shopping mall. Charles Barkley was born on February 20, 1963. Hoffman, who isn't much of a sports fan, recognized the Barkley name not because of Chuck's Hall of Fame career, but because of "Space Jam," he told The New York Times. She was born in 1989, when Barkley was still on the Sixers and would have had opportunities to pass the Christiana Mall with some regularity. Barkley graduated from Villanova in 2011. They met while hanging out with a bunch of Villanova University fans. ![]() It's not as if Barkley called his daughter King of Prussia.Ĭhristiana Barkley got married earlier this year to Ilya Hoffman. And, for what it's worth, Christiana invokes the name of Christ. It's a pretty good mall, and it's especially popular in the tri-state area because Delaware doesn't have a sales tax. "I don't know, I just liked the mall," Barkley said. "You named your daughter after a mall? Why?" Johnson asked. "That's how she got her name, Christiana. "There's a Christiana Mall in Delaware that I used to always go by," Barkley said. ![]() Here's Barkley talking to colleague Ernie Johnson during a new episode of their podcast, "The Steam Room."Ĭharles Barkley says he named his daughter after a mall in Delaware /AdJpFgoWjq- Rob Lopez December 8, 2021 He specifically said the mall, not the small town in which it's located. Then we have Charles Barkley, the Sixers legend and "NBA on TNT" analyst, who said this week that his daughter, Christiana, is named after the mall in New Castle County, Delaware. There's Penn Badgley, Paris Hilton, Winona Ryder and Orlando Bloom, to name a few. It's not uncommon for parents to draw from geographical locations to pick the names of their children. New Jersey kid from viral Popeye's meme wins state football championship with East Orange.Philadelphia's Aramark, Starr Restaurants join forces on nationwide culinary partnership.Quinta Brunson's sitcom 'Abbott Elementary' premieres to widespread acclaim.Same goes for Chubba Hubbard, Seranthony Dominguez and Laviska Shenault, who's actually a junior. World winner, has three football-player sons who are named Equanimeous, Aman-Ra and Osiris St. Body builder John Brown, a three-time Mr. Some parents are much bolder in their choice of names. My parents opted for a classic over second-place Max and I joined the Mikes of the world, sometimes mixing it up with a Mikey if I happen to like it. As a person named Michael, I don't have much ground to talk about the creativity of first names.
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