Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal had their respective vacations planned out after TNT’s coverage of the Eastern Conference Finals was over earlier this week. However, it had to wait as NBA TV wanted the duo to cover two more games– Games 1 and 2 of the Finals between the Nuggets and the Heat. Barkley took this opportunity to poke fun at Smith, Shaq, and FS1 duo Skip Bayless–Shannon Sharpe. All of them with a single joke. And also, mention his glitzy new $200 million contract with TNT.
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At the beginning of the year, ‘The Round Mound of Rebounds’ was getting an offer from LIV Golf but chose to stay with TNT and signed a massive contract that keeps him with Turner Sports for the next 10 years. However, it looks like he is done with them already.
“I have a problem with that game starting at 10:30pm… [That’s] just wrong. I don’t care what anybody says… We got to have some respect for the fans at some point.”
Charles Barkley isn’t a fan of the Timberwolves-Nuggets game starting very late 😅pic.twitter.com/TQeNCS1mRX
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) April 16, 2023
Who knows he might be actually looking for a change.
Charles Barkley might be looking for a buyout
After the Nuggets defeated the Heat in Game 1, it was time for some Charles Barkley-Shaquille O’Neal fun. Hilarious enough, Chuck was talking about how he read in a Bleacher Report article that “If you work with a damn idiot, they will buy you out.”
While the fans and the rest of the crew that also included Grant Hill would have thought it to be Shaq, he made it clear that it wasn’t on Shaq or Ernie, but Kenny Smith. However, it was surely a dig at Skip Bayless as FS1 recently bought out its veteran analyst and NFL Hall of Fame, Shannon Sharpe. Just watch it in the following clip by “cjzero’s” Twitter handle.
Charles Barkley says he gets all his news from Bleacher Report and he read an article that says if you work with a damn idiot they’ll buy you out, so he wants Turner to know he’s open to the buyout because he works with Kenny pic.twitter.com/mCuiVy03Gb
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) June 2, 2023
It is not the first time Chuck trolled Bayless
Sharpe and Skip’s beef started at the beginning of 2023. And they had frequent episodes of it in the next few UNDISPUTED episodes.
In an Inside the NBA episode around the same time, Chuck mocked the FS1 duo indirectly by calling out Shaq for interrupting Ernie.
Nah Charles Barkley trolling skip bayless & unc Shannon sharpe got me crying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Shaq couldn’t stop laughing 🤣 pic.twitter.com/iiiDwVDEvK
— Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) (@shannonsharpeee) January 6, 2023
This banter between the shows brings more life to the sport we so love, let’s hope it keeps coming.