Charles Barkley: Comparing Chuck's Cookie Game Skills to Dwight Howard's

Cookie Monster isn’t impressed.

The question of how bad do you want it has become cliché in the world of sports. But when Dwight Howard and Charles Barkley faced off with a cookie, come crunch time, it was obvious who possessed the stronger craving for a mouthful of chocolate chips.

Howard didn’t eat a plate of pasta for his pregame meal this past All-Star weekend. Instead, he ate a single cookie. It wasn’t handed to him on a silver platter either; he had to work for it.

Superman is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but maneuvering a cookie from his forehead to his mouth turned out to be Clark Kent’s second Kryptonite. Here is NBA.com’s cookie challenge, a game in which Howard needed not one, not two, but three tries and an entire minute to finally get his teeth into his pregame meal.

But like Cookie Monster, Charles Barkley wasn’t impressed.

In an attempt to out-eat D12, Barkley competed in the cookie challenge’s second annual running, this time on TNT’s Inside the NBA. Despite the pressure of performing in front of Kenny Smith, Ernie Johnson and Shaquille O’Neal while at the same time fighting back the laughter provoked by Smith and Shaq, Barkley’s mouth met the cookie in just one try.

Fat Boy, the Bread Truck, Sir-Cumference, the Round Mound—whatever you want to call him, Barkley spurned Weight Watchers to show why he’s worthy of his multitude of nicknames.

All eyes are on Howard as the NBA’s trade deadline approaches on March 15th, but after displaying such a combination of domination and elegance, if GMs know what they are doing, Sir Charles’ T-Mobile phone will be ringing off the hook.

David Daniels is a featured columnist at Bleacher Report and a syndicated writer.

Follow @TheRealDDaniels