Pairing Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley with one another was one of the finest decisions ever taken by a company in the realm of sports media. Chuck had already established himself in the NBA analysis world on ‘Inside the NBA’ for about 11 years until Shaq decided to retire and join the crew in 2011.
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The two have quite the older brother-little brother relationship with one another as they’re constantly going at one another. Most recently they each hilariously challenged each other to ‘stomp’ on their chests in the midst of the Draymond Green-Domantas Sabonis drama.
However, regardless of what is said between them, whether it’s Barkley calling O’Neal ‘dumb’ or the latter reiterating for the 1000th time that Chuck is ring-less, they have an immense amount of love for one another.
Shaquille O’Neal couldn’t keep it together after Charles Barkley’s comment
NBA fans have been getting treated to a ‘Inside the NBA’ content daily due to Playoff basketball and it’s led to quite a lot of memorable moments. In tonight’s halftime show for the Nuggets and Wolves game that saw the Wolves go down 15 points at the half, Charles Barkley said something that had Shaquille O’Neal in splits.
Chuck: “I’m kinda jugglin two balls right here” while Shaq facepalms pic.twitter.com/2taxJJMCkx
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It’s these type of comments from Chuck that always have Shaq grinning in the corner. Most famously, ‘The Big Aristotle’ could not keep a straight face when Sir Charles demonstrated how big guys keep ‘banging into you’, leading to him feeling so deflated that all he could muster was a ‘c’mon man’.
Ernie Johnson and Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith clearly didn’t want to interject and call out Shaq. Though, they did state that they hilariously didn’t want to even intervene given the childish nature of the joke.
