Charles Barkley never won an NBA championship. Here's what left him empty-handed.

Why didn't Charles Barkley win an NBA championship? The simple answers -- "MJ" and "Hakeem" -- don't do justice to the depth of a career spent falling short of the ultimate goal. To really understand why, we need to dig into the teams: the excellent but fading 76ers that drafted Barkley, the brilliant '90s Suns, and the old late-'90s Rockets. Then we need to dig further into what happened to them -- the injuries, the blown leads, the makes and misses that comprised playoff defeat.

Barkley's individual greatness is well understood, but his teams' playoff failure too often gets simplified, almost into a meme. Episode 1 of UNTITLED will show you how close his teams came, and the specific events that led to their falling short.

Written and produced by Seth Rosenthal
Directed by Ryan Simmons
Motion graphics by Phil Pasternak and Michael Das

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