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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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Steve Kerr says Roger Federer taught his Warriors team the secret to sustained success wasn’t outworking everyone, it was building a life around your craft you never want to escape from
“I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.”
“Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.”
“Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.”
“‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’”
“And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.”
“It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”
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Congrats to Dave Smart, the most successful men’s basketball coach in USports history, long time men’s national team coach and head coach at the University of the Pacific on being inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Doc Rivers reveals he once got into a heated argument with Pat Riley that taught him one of the biggest lessons of his career: never coach people for who they are today, but push them toward who they can become
“Coach Pat Riley, when I was playing for the Knicks, Coach Riley and I had the biggest argument in my entire playing career. I know all you players thought, you know, I used to go at coaches too.”
“And during the shouting match, Coach looked at me and said, ‘One day, when you’re a head coach, and you will be one, you’re going to understand exactly where I’m coming from.’”
“And I literally yelled back at him, ‘Are you crazy? I am never going to coach. Every coach that I know, they’re nuts.’ Well, I want to tell Coach Riley thank you for being right on all accounts.”
“And one of the lessons he told me was to never coach a person for who they are today, but to push them to who they should be someday. That was very important for me.”
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✈️ Off to the Great White North
Excited to head to Toronto next week to play a pair of exhibition games and put a bow on summer workouts!
#GoFrogs
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THE TEMPO MAKE HISTORY IN MONTREAL 🔥
The Tempo-Wings game at the Bell Centre is now the most attended regular season game in WNBA history! This is the league's first-ever game in Montreal 👏(📸 @TempoBasketball)
Love Paige's midrange game and her passion for it. The fact that she's put an emphasis on developing her perimeter shooting to be just as dangerous shows how dominant she'll be in the league.
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Forever Toronto legends continue to make an impact on the city's basketball history. 🏀
NBA champion @Klow7, and entrepreneur and philanthropist Ayahna Cornish-Lowry, have joined the Tempo ownership group, further strengthening the organization's commitment to growing women's basketball and investing in the future of the sport in Canada.
Welcome, Kyle and Ayahna! 🤝
Marquee Moments presented by Sephora Canada
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander getting shots up at the Canada SMNT training camp ahead of Window 3 of the FIBA World Cup Americas Qualifiers
Canada will take on Puerto Rico (July 3) and Jamaica (July 6) at TD Coliseum in Hamilton.
The Toronto Tempo are set to play their first-ever game in Scotiabank Arena! 2PM tip-off vs the Phoenix Mercury
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Former University of Victoria forward Elias Ralph will be joining the Sacramento Kings for NBA Summer League, per @DraftExpress
The 6'7 Okotoks, AB forward averaged 16.7 PPG, 6.8 RPG, 46.7 FG%, and 40.9 3P% in his senior season with the Pacific Tigers under Dave Smart.
The Texas Tech women's basketball team is scheduled to play against the UBC Thunderbirds at War Memorial Gym in Vancouver on August 8, 2026, @4th_hoops has confirmed.
This will mark only the 5th D1 women's program to visit Canada to play U SPORTS competition since 2020.
