Charles Barkley is one of the most polarizing NBA commentators in the business.With a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is approach, Barkley is part of TNT’s very entertaining Inside the NBA team and generally provides NBA fans with truthful and poignant tidbits that only an NBA Hall of Famer can provide.However, before Game 1 of an Eastern Conference playoff battle between the No. 1 seed Boston Celtics and No. 8 seed Chicago Bulls, Barkley was blatantly insensitive.TNT aired footage of Celtics point guard Isaiah Thomas crying both in the pregame shootaround earlier in the day and also right before the game during a moment of silence. Thomas’ sister tragically died on Saturday in a car crash, but he still took the court to lead his team on Easter Sunday.But, according to Chuck, the footage of Thomas crying made him “uncomfortable”.

Especially since Barkley lost his own brother a few years back, you would think that he'd have a soft spot in his heart for what IT is going through.

"I'm not feeling comfortable with him sitting on the sideline crying like that. That makes me uncomfortable because that tells me he's not in shape to play. I don't know how this night is going to turn out. But to be sitting on the sideline a few minutes before the game, crying, that makes me uncomfortable for him. That's just not a good look, in my personal opinion,” he said in the clip above.

“That’s not a good look” is a pretty harsh thing to say when describing someone who is grieving a day after losing a sibling.

As you can imagine, once NBA fans caught wind of Barkley's comments, they took to Twitter to react.

One fan called him an absolute joke. 

Another noted the apparent disrespect.

Maybe he's just trolling all of us, going out of his way to get people talking about him (it's working). 

Some fans, like the one below, even went so far as to call for his firing. 

Not only were his comments inappropriate, but they also referred to Thomas sitting on the bench sobbing during the team’s shootaround, which happened earlier in the afternoon, several hours before tip-off (not like that makes much of a difference). While his intention might not have been to show disrespect or insensitivity, he has a large platform on live television, and it's his responsibility to be held accountable for his words.

The Bulls would go on to win Game 1 by the score of 106-102, pulling off the upset.

Thomas, playing through the emotional torment, posted 33 points on 10-of-18 shooting along with five rebounds and six assists, showing no on-court effects of his tragic loss.