Charles Barkley claimed he didn’t care that LeBron James went on an unfiltered rant about him on Monday, but that didn’t stop the TNT basketball analyst and Hall of Famer from getting in a few extra shots at LeBron. He even joked that paintball guns may be needed.

Barkley called into ESPN Chicago 1000’s Waddle & Silvy show on Tuesday to sound off on the feud that has taken the NBA world by storm the past 24 hours. He said that he wouldn’t get personal like James had done.

He said:

“Number One: I have no problem with what LeBron said. Some of it was true. I did pay my debt – that’s not true. I was never late to the All-Star Game, so that’s not true. But I don’t overreact. I’m not going to say anything bad about him or get personal. I stick by what I said. He was all whiny and everything last week. So, I’m good, man. “If I’m going to be straight forward like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes. I’m good. He got personal, but I’m never going to get personal on an NBA player. All my criticism or critiques are always just about basketball. And I’m going to keep doing what I do.”

In James’ rant, he listed off less-than-favorable moments from Barkley’s career. Barkley had a response for that too. Well, after he was reminded what Google is.

“Clearly he had done his homework on some screw-ups I’ve had in my life. I appreciate him reading … Clearly he Googled me and found out some things. Because I think he was young when I was playing. So, he clearly Googled me, so I appreciate that. But listen, man. I’m not going to get upset that someone said something bad about me. I’m not like 12 years old.”

Barkley brushed away the notion that he has to be friends with James. He said that will never happen.

“I think when you don’t like the message, you just kill the messenger. Some of the things he said about me are correct. That still does not make my message incorrect. I thought he was really whiny and complaining the past couple weeks, talking about how he’s got no help. Dude, you just won the championship.”

He continued:

“I’ve only met LeBron casually. He’s always been great to me. I think I’ve been great and cordial to him. But this notion that we have to be friends, we’re never going to be friends. “That’s not a negative thing, I’m not friends with none of these young guys. My job is to do my job, but I do understand that this is a different generation. Where anytime you say something about young guys, they take it personally. “They never worry about whether the criticism is fair or not. They take it personally. That doesn’t bother me.”

I don’t know what it will solve, but a paintball fight between Barkley and LeBron would be must-see TV.

“Instead of that skills competition, we can have like a paint gun – because I don’t want him to get hurt – and I don’t want to get hurt. We should do a paint gun sheriff shootout at the All-Star Game instead of that skills competition.”

You can listen to the full interview here.