Charles Barkley, Draymond Green make peace as they meet face to face

Tom Gatto

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No punches were thrown when Charles Barkley and Draymond Green sat face to face on national television Saturday night.

In fact, Barkley apologized again to Green for saying recently that he wanted to hit the Warriors forward/pest.

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The two men had a cordial and complimentary meeting on TNT's "Inside the NBA" after Green's Warriors rallied for a season-saving Game 6 win over the Rockets in the Western Conference finals.

Barkley's latest apology came right after that exchange. He issued a televised apology the day after he made the comments.

Viewers who may have been hoping for a tense showdown Saturday were left disappointed, and they let Barkley know on Twitter that his conciliatory tone made him look weak.

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.