Charles Barkley doesn’t ‘want to die on TV’ next to ‘fat ass’ Shaq

Charles Barkley desires to get pleasure from a while between his tv duties and kicking the bucket.

Barkley, on a current media convention name held by TNT, was requested by the positioning Sports activities Media Watch about his future with the corporate.

“It’s been an awesome, great point. I really like Ernie, Kenny, Shaq and everyone we work with. However I simply don’t really feel the necessity to work till the day I die. I don’t, man. I’ll be 61 years previous if I end out my contract,” Barkley answered, in response to the Dallas Morning Information.

“And I don’t need to die on TV. I need to die on the golf course or someplace fishing. I don’t need to be sitting inside over [by] fat-ass Shaq [waiting] to drop lifeless.”

Barkley has been speaking about how this contract – which is up in two years – could be his final on TV primarily since he signed it, however the media world has not accepted this as reality.

That features stated fat-ass, Shaq.

Charles Barkley continues to say he'll retire in two years when his TNT deal is up.

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“He’s by no means gonna stop,” Shaq stated on the NY Submit and Sports activities Enterprise Journal’s “Marchand and Ourand” sports activities media podcast in November. “Charles is gonna be right here without end. We want him, and he wants us. I’m satisfied that if I’m retired and I don’t do nothing, I'll falter away. That is what we do and what we reside for. It’s what we’ve been doing, and we'd like one another.

“We preserve one another going. Look, I’ve been right here 11 years. I’ve heard that spiel earlier than, however he’s gonna be right here until the wheels fall off.”

TNT’s mother or father media umbrella, WarnerMedia, is altering fingers from AT&T to Discovery within the coming months. The brand new firm will presumably go to nice lengths to attempt to preserve him.

(From left to proper) Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley.

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TNT did not too long ago signal Draymond Inexperienced with the thought of the present Warriors ahead ultimately being the inheritor obvious for Barkley, The Submit’s Andrew Marchand reported final month.

Barkley has been on this system for about 20 years, and Ernie Johnson and Kenny Smith have been there even longer. It’s unfathomable to consider what life could be like with out them at this level.