Speaker 1: I'm gonna give back to some sports media talk where
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley's taking exception to the amount of time ESPN
Speaker 1: spend's talking about the Lakers, the Warriors, and the Jordan
Speaker 1: versus Lebron debate. Here's what Barkley had to say on
Speaker 1: Inside the NBA last night. Check this out, y'all. The
Speaker 1: Lakers are having a great two weeks. Kendrick Perkins said,
Speaker 1: the Lakers saved the NBA season. That's all them fools
Speaker 1: on the other network, which we're going to be working
Speaker 1: for next year, that's all they talk about. Let me
Speaker 1: tell y'all something. I want all the smoke between that
Speaker 1: and this lame ass Lebron Michael Jordan debate. I've said
Speaker 1: for years, the only people who talk about Lebron and
Speaker 1: Michael it's people on television who got no talent to
Speaker 1: talk about anything else. End quote. First of all, couple
Speaker 1: of things, my man, Kendrick Perkins was pretty upset at
Speaker 1: the way Charles Barkley was talking about him. Kendrick, stop,
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley talks about everybody like this. If you get
Speaker 1: around Barkley for more than twenty four hours, he's gonna
Speaker 1: call you a four an idiot about something. That's number one.
Speaker 1: He means no harm. There's only one person in media,
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley hates it. We all know who that is, okay,
Speaker 1: you used to work at ESPN, anyone over the Fix.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows who he is, Okay, Charles Barkley can't stand
Speaker 1: Skipped Bayler's that's it. That's the only person outside of that.
Speaker 1: Everybody else. He just says, you know, you're idiot, You're
Speaker 1: fool if he don't like something you did in the moment,
Speaker 1: that's all it is. Charles Barkley is one of the
Speaker 1: best people you could ever meet in your life. He's
Speaker 1: a beautiful person. You don't got an evil bone in
Speaker 1: his body. That's not who he is, Okay, So that's
Speaker 1: number one. Number two Charles Barkley is on television knowing
Speaker 1: television is something he leaves to Ernie as in The
Speaker 1: Great Ernie Johnson Chos Walker ain't got time for that.
Speaker 1: Why do I bring that up? Because subject matters as
Speaker 1: it pretends to what you're talking about on television. You
Speaker 1: ever heard of Nielsen ratings. People pay attention to the
Speaker 1: stuff that they want to pay attention to. They turn
Speaker 1: the channel when you talk about stuff they don't care
Speaker 1: to hear about. I got news for TNT right now,
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley. Spend ten to fifteen minutes talking about Oklahoma City,
Speaker 1: They're number one team in the West. Spend the same
Speaker 1: amount of time talking about the Cleveland Cavaliers, and then
Speaker 1: take a look at your ratings. If you ain't mentioned
Speaker 1: in Boston, you ain't mentioned in New York, you ain't
Speaker 1: mentioned in LA. You ain't mentioned in Lebron. You ain't
Speaker 1: mentioning Steph. You're not mentioned in Jimmy Butler. With Steph,
Speaker 1: you're not mentioning Luka Doncic with Lebron. You're not doing
Speaker 1: any of those things. Watch where get you ratings matter?
Speaker 1: I would know I've been blessed and fortunate enough to
Speaker 1: win at them for the last thirteen years now. I'm
Speaker 1: not an Emmy Award winning show like Inside the NBA.
Speaker 1: But once again, Ernie handles a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Those guys know their basketball and they come on to
Speaker 1: talk basketball. But in terms of the subject matters to
Speaker 1: be tackled, you pay attention to what resonates with the
Speaker 1: audience and also what games you're featuring. Charles Barkley is
Speaker 1: the same person that says, literally, working for the network,
Speaker 1: I don't know why the hell anybody will watch this
Speaker 1: game if it's a particular game he's disgusted by, I
Speaker 1: don't know why anybody would pay attention to this subject
Speaker 1: that subject because he's talking, So everybody just relaxed. That's
Speaker 1: not who Charles Barkley is. But to get to a
Speaker 1: deeper point, when he brings up ESPN, ESPN is a
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven network. We ain't playing NBA games,
Speaker 1: airing NBA games and airing a half hour pregame show
Speaker 1: and then an hour long postgame show and then before
Speaker 1: and after you got Law and Order episodes. That's not
Speaker 1: what we do at ESPN. We are twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven sports network. So you're gonna find yourself talking about things,
Speaker 1: even regurgitating things, getting into stuff, talking about things, giving
Speaker 1: people ideas about narratives and all of that stuff. Why
Speaker 1: because the kind of thing people think about it happens.
Speaker 1: And by the way, while Charles Barkley was going off
Speaker 1: and calling us fools at ESPN, he acknowledged that he
Speaker 1: was about to be a fool because they were about
Speaker 1: to be over here and what you think Charles Barkley
Speaker 1: gonna be doing and what kind of narratives you think
Speaker 1: he's going to be created. Charles Walker ain't never created
Speaker 1: any narrative. Charles Walker ain't never opened his mouth and
Speaker 1: say yo, blah blah blah. And that ended up being
Speaker 1: a story the next day, didn't Charles Barkley? You thought
Speaker 1: I got called out by Lebron? Did you see what
Speaker 1: Lebron did with Charles Barkley years ago? And Charles Barkley
Speaker 1: had to address it by saying he wasn't gonna get personal.
Speaker 1: It happens. How many people in Shaq got got into
Speaker 1: it with it happens. All all contributes to great television.
Speaker 1: And the best part about it is that it's not manufactured.
Speaker 1: It's what really our people are thinking about and talking
Speaker 1: about and what's on their collective minds. It just so
Speaker 1: happens to be manufactured in a good television. Where's the crime?
Speaker 1: Barkley's gonna go off about that? He was disgusted that
Speaker 1: Big Perks said the Lakers have saved the NBA. I
Speaker 1: didn't agree with perks take, but it wasn't like it
Speaker 1: should be summarily dismissed you're trying to tell me that
Speaker 1: Luka Dance being in the second largest market in the
Speaker 1: United States playing for maybe the second arguably the greatest
Speaker 1: sports franchise in NBA history, in the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 1: You're trying to tell me that's not a good angle.
Speaker 1: You're trying to tell me that Luca and the Lakers
Speaker 1: potentially making a championship run isn't a relevant storyline. Is
Speaker 1: that what you're trying to tell me. Of course it is.
Speaker 1: Of course it matters. That's how I go. Now, that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean Cleveland is not a great story. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean Oklahoma City is not a great story. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something right now, Oklahoma and Cleveland in the
Speaker 1: regular season maybe has been the best game of the year.
Speaker 1: That was a phenomenal game, and if they were to
Speaker 1: meet each other in the NBA Finals, it would be phenomenal.
Speaker 1: But you're trying to tell me people don't want that,
Speaker 1: or people do want that more than they want Boston
Speaker 1: versus LA. How about LA going up against Cleveland? When
Speaker 1: Lebron going up against his old franchise in an effort
Speaker 1: to try and capture an NBA championship, which would give
Speaker 1: him five, which would tie him with Kobe Bryant, which
Speaker 1: would make people say there's nothing to discuss. Because he
Speaker 1: won a championship at the age of forty, he is
Speaker 1: officially the goat over Michael Jordan. You're trying to tell
Speaker 1: me that nobody would care about those storylines. Maybe Barkley
Speaker 1: would say they don't, but that's because he does television
Speaker 1: as opposed to actually knowing it, meaning knowing what storylines
Speaker 1: resonate on a day to day basis. I'm not taking
Speaker 1: a shot of them. I'm just telling you the brothers
Speaker 1: we occupied. It's got golf, he's got gambles, got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff that he loves to do. He
Speaker 1: lives his best life. So my brother, I love Charles Barkley,
Speaker 1: love him to death. And guess what, It wouldn't have
Speaker 1: surprised me at all. If tomorrow on TV I'm the idiot,
Speaker 1: or Tuesday or whenever he's back on because he ain't
Speaker 1: working every day, that's not what he does. And he'll
Speaker 1: tell you the heartbeat that fool, and I'll laugh because
Speaker 1: I love him because I know he means no harm.
Speaker 1: He's just expressing an opinion. Everybody needs to calm down.
Speaker 1: Everybody needs to calm down.