Charles Barkley Is Glad The NBA Did Something About Load Management

TNT Charles Barkley has long been a critic of NBA players sitting out games due to load management. Unsurprisingly, when the topic came up on Tuesday night ahead of the start of the NBA season, Barkley made clear that he’s incredibly happy that the league did something about it. Barkley and the rest of the …

Saquon Barkley Addressed His Back-And-Forth With A Fan Who Talked ‘Crazy To’ Daniel Jones ‘After He Just Got Hurt’

Getty Image Things could be going much better for the New York Giants right now. The team sits at 1-4 on the season, and after a surprising playoff berth during the 2022 campaign that beget a big money extension for Daniel Jones, New York looks like a team that is going to be picking awfully …

Jaren Jackson Jr. Responds To Charles Barkley Saying It’d Be Good If Team USA Didn’t Win The World Cup

TNT In the lead-up to the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, TNT analyst Charles Barkley made the case for why it’d be a good thing if USA Basketball did not win a gold medal. While appearing on Bill Simmons’ podcast, Barkley — who is a two-time gold medal winner with Team USA at the 1992 …

Charles Barkley Says He’ll Fall Asleep Watching ‘Bad Basketball’ Some Nights On TNT

60 Minutes Charles Barkley is America’s most beloved sports commentator in large part because he never lies to the people. Barkley has never forced himself into giving out hot takes — he just naturally has them sometimes — and he never pretends a game or team is something its not. That presence makes Inside the …

Charles Barkley Surprised Ernie Johnson With The News He Was Going In The Sports Broadcasting Hall Of Fame

TNT Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley were back on TNT’s airwaves on Thursday evening for a rare mid-summer broadcasting gig together, as they went out to Las Vegas for the latest installment of “The Match,” this time pitting Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson against Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. Before the stars of the hardwood …

Adam Silver Tried Very Hard To Convince Charles Barkley The In-Season Tournament Is A Good Idea

NBA TV Adam Silver joined the NBA TV set prior to Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat. While he had an audience with the commissioner, Charles Barkley decided to pepper Silver with a few questions about a thing that he admits he does not understand: the in-season …

Charles Barkley ‘Would Love To’ Talk To Zion Williamson About The Importance Of Getting In Shape

TNT Charles Barkley has told a story about the conversation he had with Moses Malone during his playing days that inspired him to get in shape. Back in 2021, Barkley brought it up as an example of how someone needs to have a serious conversation with Zion Williamson about taking care of his body — …

Charles Barkley Asked Gabe Vincent If He Watched Game 3 After He Said The Celtics Won’t Lay Down

TNT Most NBA players are very well coached when it comes to doing media and not saying things that are too inflammatory in interviews and press conferences. Gabe Vincent is among them, as the Heat guard joined the Inside the NBA crew after Miami’s dominant Game 3 win to discuss what went right and what …

An Overjoyed Shaq Got Charles Barkley To Say ‘Genitals’ On TV

TNT One fun element of Inside the NBA is that they’re pretty good at incorporating tweets from people who are watching the show. As they explained to us earlier this year, they’re constantly on the search for stuff that makes their broadcast a little better, as they’ll find a good and relevant tweet, put it …

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Remembered Telling Charles Barkley To Go Away The First Time They Met

TNT Prior to the start of the Eastern Conference Finals, TNT aired a special sit down between Shaquille O’Neal and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The pair of Laker greats were never on the best terms during O’Neal’s career, but have reconciled of late, most notably after LeBron James passed Kareem as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer when …

Charles Barkley And Shaq Got Extremely Mad At Each Other Over The End Of Game 4 Of Celtics-Sixers

TNT The Philadelphia 76ers were able to survive Game 4 of their series against the Boston Celtics on Sunday. Philly blew a fourth quarter lead, managed to come back and force overtime, where they once again fell behind before rallying, getting a clutch three by James Harden, and benefitted from some curious decision-making by the …

Charles Barkley Made A Wild Clarence Thomas Joke About TNT’s New ‘Gone Fishin’ Boat

Every year, the Inside the NBA crew bids farewell to teams that get knocked out of the postseason with their “Gone Fishin’” segment, photoshopping players onto a boat, which has grown into a fairly elaborate bit where the fellas put on hats and have fishing poles and pretend they too are on a boat. This …