Charles Barkley is trying to make amends to San Francisco, a newspaper in that city reports.

The Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and television analyst had raised hackles by trashing the City by the Bay in the leadup to this year’s NBA All-Star game. He referred to it as “rat-infested” and vowed not to attend Sunday’s game at the Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors.

Yet Barkley has changed his tune, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

He spent Saturday volunteering at a homeless shelter in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood and pledged to donate $250,000 to Glide Memorial Church, which works against poverty and to promote social justice, the paper reported.

Born in Leeds, Barkley was an all-American at Auburn University. He was drafted as a junior in 1986 by the Philadelphia 76ers with the fifth overall pick.