Charles Barkley gives his full and honest opinion on ESPN and their NBA coverage.
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00:00And let's go to someone else who's tired of all the yammering.
00:05By the way, I get the J.
00:06Fig treatment by these lights.
00:07I don't understand why they're doing this.
00:09I know you are looking very funny.
00:11What's going on?
00:12That just turned on out of nowhere.
00:15Turned it off.
00:16I don't understand what's going on.
00:18Don't let it distract you.
00:19Try and do the radio show.
00:22Oh, you know, that's the music.
00:24That's the pearly gates.
00:25You see how I came up when you were talking about things on thin ice.
00:28Mm hmm.
00:29I just want to look good for jail.
00:31But anyway, as we move on to the mixed bag, Charles Barkley says
00:36M.J. versus LeBron is stupid and it's all ESPN talk.
00:41They talk about the same stuff every single day.
00:44I would have to.
00:44But you know, there's there's there's some credit.
00:47Is there some credit to be handed out?
00:49Yes. Yes. Yes.
00:50But don't say basketball is only watching now.
00:53First of all, between that and this lame ass LeBron
00:58Michael Jordan debate, which is lame, I say I've said for years,
01:02the only people talk about LeBron and Michael is people on television
01:05who got no talent to talk about anything else.
01:09I've been saying that for years.
01:10I ain't hanging on to the 90s.
01:12I've always said LeBron's great. Michael's great.
01:15But y'all talk about it all the time.
01:17And then got LeBron out there posing, talk about he all mad
01:20about being the face of the league.
01:22But it makes me mad.
01:23The Oklahoma City and the Cleveland Cavaliers
01:27are the two best stories in the NBA this year.
01:30Congratulations to the Lakers and the Warriors.
01:32They've had two good weeks.
01:35The Cavs and OKC have had six great months.
01:39OK, tell us how you really feel.
01:42Yeah. All right.
01:43Yeah, Shaq, tell us how you feel.
01:46Man. In the video, Shaq gives a perfect response,
01:50reaction, just laughing.
01:52His head was on the table.
01:54He he has a point.
02:00But. What you have to understand is this
02:05anytime people like Skip Bayless
02:09need some. Clickbait, who does he go to?
02:14He don't talk about OKC.
02:16He don't talk about the Cavs.
02:18I don't think he's talking about Stephen.
02:19I don't think he's talking about Skip.
02:20I think he's talking about Stephen A.
02:22Yeah, but the last thing I saw out of Skip was if LeBron
02:25had learned how to shoot a three pointer earlier in his career
02:30without fully acknowledging that the game has changed to three pointers.
02:35But he could be talking about Stephen A.
02:38No, he was talking about Stephen.
02:39I mean, Skip Bayless hasn't been on television for a year.
02:41Steve, I think I think.
02:44It. The thing that bothers me is when everybody thinks
02:48they need a hot topic, they talk about LeBron. Right.
02:53And and Barkley is right from this standpoint.
02:57What OKC and Cleveland are doing are unbelievable.
03:01And we barely talk about that.
03:04I've talked about it.
03:05We talk about the Warriors broke my heart twice in the last two weeks.
03:09We talk about the Lakers. Right.
03:13And so I could see I could see where
03:16the people that deserve the stories,
03:19but they have determined that that story isn't good enough.
03:24It's not juicy enough.
03:26What would be juicier?
03:28Warriors back. Lakers back.
03:31Although the Lakers have been.
03:34In what, fourth place or third place for most of the year?
03:38They haven't been that high.
03:39Their surge has happened pretty recently.
03:41They've had a surge, but they've been in not fourth.
03:46Most of the time, it's most of the top four has been
03:50for the most part of the season had been OKC, Memphis, Houston, Denver.
03:54Houston has fallen off. Yeah.
03:57Not Houston. I'm sorry, Memphis.
03:59They've been now and now they lost Triple J.