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Shaq catches Charles Barkley slipping after he claims he won a world championship 😂
Barkley was explaining to Kyrie Irving how his experience as a former star could help younger players, but when he mentioned winning a championship, Shaq immediately interrupted with, “You won what?”
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The guy who kept Shaq and Charles Barkley in line on TV for 37 years used to spend his mornings shaving and dressing his son, who could barely move and breathed through a ventilator. Then he'd go to work and laugh with those guys all night like nothing was going on.
Tonight Ernie Johnson said this season will be his last, and Barkley tried to thank him on air and couldn't get the words out.
I don't think most people watching that clip know what Ernie was carrying all those years.
He and his wife Cheryl adopted Michael from an orphanage outside Bucharest in 1991, when he was 3. He had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and doctors didn't think he'd make it to his 20s. He lived to 33. When Ernie was home, getting Michael ready in the morning could take an hour and a half, and Ernie did the showering and shaving and dressing himself.
In 2006 he told viewers he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and by the end of October he was back at the desk while he was still going through chemo.
When Michael died in 2021, Ernie wasn't on the show that week, and Shaq, Kenny and Chuck spent about six minutes trying to hold it together while they talked about a kid most of America never met.
Then last year he had heart bypass surgery, and this summer he turned 70.
Ernie's dad pitched in the big leagues and then called Braves games for decades, and he gave his son a rule Ernie's talked about forever: if somebody spikes you at second base, never rub.
If you've ever wondered why nobody's been able to copy Inside, that rule is a big part of it. Barkley could say the dumbest thing imaginable, Shaq could fall out of his chair, Kenny could go running to the big board, and Ernie would just pick it up and bring it back to basketball with that yellow legal pad. Those three got to be chaos because the guy in the middle never made his own stuff the show.
He still calls hosting a "get-to job," and he was calling it that the same year he buried his son.
So when Charles Barkley, who's roasted pretty much everybody alive on live TV, can't finish a sentence to the man, that's why.
Charles Barkley and the guys give Ernie Johnson his flowers. This is a must watch.
(via @ohnohedidnt24)
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AJ Dybantsa looking to add floater and midrange game to score when he cannot reach the paint against NBA length.
AJ Dybantsa: “These guys are trees. Like, I mean, I've always been like kind of the biggest guy. But you get here, these guys are seven foot. So just try to add like a little floater to my bag or try to add a middy to my bag, so every time I can't get all the way to the paint, I have another solution to score.”
AJ Dybantsa in his NBA debut: 27 MIN • 19 PTS (8/12 FGM)
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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Whether it’s funny or sad - Charles ability to just come off like a normal human is his greatest strength…. zero chance they can fill his spot when he bounces with Ernie. Like John Madden - just a 1 of 1
Charles Barkley and the guys give Ernie Johnson his flowers. This is a must watch.
(via @ohnohedidnt24)
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J Cole breaks down Jay Z & other Rocnation execs expecting hit records/ROI from him when he first signed & putting it all together
(via @GQMagazine)
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Charles Barkley gets emotional addressing Ernie Johnson:
“It’s been an honor and privilege to work with you all this time.”
Johnson announced today that he will be leaving Inside the NBA after this season.
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Gilbert Arenas on why the superstar players are getting hurt in the NBA:
“I said it season 1 and I’m going to say it again as a guy that’s a track runner and I’m looking at history of the game the early 2000s, 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s star players didn’t get hurt this much there’s a reason the star is getting hurt this much because what happens is if you’re not really training and getting in shape and you’re just letting them in their summer looking good come into the season bullsh*t through training camp and then go out in the game play against another superstar that superstar is going to go 100 for the first time and that is what happening.”
Demarcus Cousins says the NBA is moving towards where every good team has a plethora of guards:
“Even when you look at a team like San Antonio they have a bunch of guards, Minnesota a bunch of guards, OKC a bunch of guards. So I don’t know I think we all know it’s this a trending league but that could possibly be where the league is kind of going you want to have that extra layer of guards are that rotation of guards where basically when one group comes out the game don’t really change it stays exactly where it is.”
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They just don’t make basketball minds like this anymore man
Kobe Bryant says he would hire a car service to get to road games before the team’s first bus so he could be inside the arena before the crowd arrived and prepare in complete silence, and says he would prepare meticulously for whatever looks the opposing defense was going to give him
“If we had a road game, say Miami, a 7:30pm game, I’d still get up early and do weights. I’d have breakfast, get on the bus, go to shootaround, get my shots up, come back to the room, do treatment, ice, stretch. I might watch a movie, I might watch a little extra film.”
“Then for the bus to the stadium, we had two buses. The first bus was generally around 4:45pm and the second bus was around 5:30pm. I was generally on the early one, just to get treatment and get shots up, because I liked getting to the arenas early.”
“Sometimes I would actually get a car and leave before the first bus because even though the first bus was leaving early, there were still people coming into the stands. I liked getting to arenas when there was nobody in there and you could kind of feel the purity of the place, especially in a road environment.”
“As far as how many shots I was trying to get up, it depended on how I was feeling physically and who we were playing. If I was playing the Spurs, I’d work on short-corner shots, mid-elbow shots, those types of shots because those were the shots their defense would give up. If I was playing Memphis and Tony Allen, I’d work on a lot of back-to-the-basket stuff, putting my body on Tony, making sure my footwork was right, making sure I was hiding the ball so he couldn’t swipe it. I’d go through those muscle-memory things. The positions of the shots would vary depending on the opponent.”
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