Barkley and Mayfield each have their supporters for the Rookie of the Year Award. They have a friendly wager on who will win the honor, which will be announced Saturday night.
Barkley told Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot that there is a chain riding on the outcome of award:
“It’s for a chain,’’ he said. “The loser’s got to get someone else a chain. We get to pick the chain and we get to have fun with it because obviously everyone’s talking about who’s going to win, and at the end of the day we’d love to see each other win, but we’d also love to see ourselves win too, but we made a little bet with it just to show how friendly we are that it’s bigger than just the award.