Charles Barkley Didn’t Hold Back When Calling Out TNT For Being ‘Cheap’ With Security
Barkley is at it again!
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Barkley’s blunt (and humorous) candor don’t stop at those either, as he’s even been known to call out his employers from time to time. On that note, Barkley recently had no trouble taking playful jabs at TNT over the measure they take for “security. ” Charles Barkley’s long-running sports show, Inside the NBA , may now be on ESPN , but he’s still helping with TNT’s coverage of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament this year.
Barkley recently did sideline coverage with Dick Vitale for the Texas Longhorns and NC State game, during which he spoke to studio analyst Bruce Pearl. First, Barkley hall of famer joked that one of his “prerequisites for working on this game was that [he] didn’t want to be in the studio” with Pearl due to people looking for the latter. Barkley then said this: Let me tell you something about TNT security.
You can go into Kenny’s lockers and steal anything, because we all got the same damn code. That’s how cheap they are…. So if you want to go in Shaq, Kenny, or my locker and steal something, feel free to do it, Bruce.