Charles Barkley calls out ESPN NBA Coverage

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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.

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