Tag: Charles Barkley

"Ernie Johnson returns as host alongside Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal and Kenny Smith. The 25 dates mark a jump from the 20 regular season windows ESPN announced last season."

"I thought that NBC was full of s**t the way they did it. They sold it a little different. Like wait a minute, Michael's [Jordan] wearing the same clothes for six months."

"This is more like a celebration. I've had the greatest life a person can have."

"Inside the NBA didn’t just cover basketball. It changed what sports television could be. And sometimes the best way to preserve a legacy is to know when you’ve reached the final buzzer."

"So right now, unless Ernie [Johnson] changes his mind, next year is my last year one hundred percent."

"This was Michael Jordan. The face of the NBA’s greatest era. The man who helped make the original NBA on NBC a cultural phenomenon. The opportunity to put him back in that environment should have been impossible to screw up. And somehow, NBC did."

"I was really surprised how many people went after Draymond and defended me. I'm not sensitive at all because I say stuff about players. I hope they're not sensitive because if I say it, I believe it."

"Every kid who's ever touched a ball wanted to be on ESPN. To work with you guys, it's been awesome. But to get to do the NBA finals, it was exciting, fun, and we had a blast."

"The biggest lesson from Inside the NBA's first season on ESPN isn't that the show suddenly became less talented, less entertaining, or less insightful. It's that audiences can't engage with a show they rarely see."

"I'm gonna say it, and this is not offensive. We created what the podcast world is now. Because the way we behaved allowed people to have more of a freedom of speech."