Charles Barkley (b. 1963) is a retired NBA basketball player who played for the Philadephia 76ers, Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets. He appeared with Kermit and Miss Piggy in a 2015 Capital One Super Bowl commercial, alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Spike Lee.
Barkley was part of the US men's basketball team for the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games.
He's mentioned in Sesame Street Episode 2756 by way of Marv Albert's commentary of a New York Knicks game