Except that Shaq and Barkley both gotta have amnesia if they forget that each of them did that repeatedly.
Barkley left Philly in the middle of his prime to join a Suns team that was already loaded. Shaq split from Orlando for his first big contract to run to the Lakers. Then Barkley at 33yo still coming off an All-NBA season went to the Rockets to try to form the Hakeem-Drexler-Barkley superteam and finally get his ring. Shaq in his prime begged for Malone and Payton to come over (both coming off of 20ppg seasons) to form the
Shaq-Kobe-Malone-Payton superteam. Then disgruntled Shaq demanded a trade and told them to send him to Miami so he could team up with Wade.
They were both running around and trying to team up all over the league, it would be dumb as fukk if they were jealous at current players for it.