NBA or not, TNT will try to keep Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley: “Have the International Teams gotten better? 100%. They are still not better than the United States. You take away Joker and Giannis and Luka. All three guys are great, great players. Shai is great also. But we still got the next 10 best players in every game. Ain’t nobody bringing nobody off the bench better than Jayson Tatum. Ain’t nobody bringing anybody off the bench better than Kevin Durant. The international teams have gotten better, but there’s never an excuse for the United States not to win the gold medal. We got the best team. We got the best players by far. (…) Listen, if they lose, we can’t let them back in the country. We can’t. I told them they can’t come back.” -via YouTube / August 5, 2024

“Do you think anyone will ever be able to replicate the success and popularity of the NBA on TNT? CHARLES BARKLEY: Great question. I don’t know if anybody gives it a chance, to be honest with you. You know, ESPN, which I love, they never give anybody a chance to get any chemistry. They’re all just kind of throwing stuff at the wall, like let’s put this group together, and they’ll do that for like six months to a year, and then they’re like, it didn’t work. Well, you didn’t give it a chance to work.” -via YouTube / August 5, 2024

Because I thought I did read something where TNT was doing some type of maybe legal action to where they did match the offer and that they should have the right to extend the deal. Is there any truth in that?” CHARLES BARKLEY: “So we filed a lawsuit, but what I think, and I’m talking out on my ass, I want to make that clear. What I think, and Adam Silver is brilliant, I don’t think he would put himself in that situation, to be honest with you. I think what’s happening, like I say, I’m just talking out my ass, I think the NBA said you can match, but they meant ESPN or NBC, you don’t get to match the Amazon offer.” -via YouTube / August 5, 2024