Charles Barkley has issued an ultimatum to LIV Golf.
Barkley, who has been candid about his conversations with the Saudi-backed golf league, stated Monday on the “Dan Patrick Present” that he advised LIV Golf they should make a proposal to him this week or he’s out.
Requested by Patrick if he is aware of when LIV Golf figurehead Greg Norman will get again to him, Barkley stated, “I’m gonna give them a deadline. The deadline is gonna be Thursday. I’m enjoying on the Professional-Am Thursday … I’m not gonna maintain TNT in limbo. I don’t assume it’s honest to them. They’ve gotten loads of play out of me coming to play on the market Thursday. I’m not simply gonna be no present pony. Don’t be losing my time. I’m not gonna waste y’all time. After I depart New Jersey Thursday evening, once I depart the golf course, if I don’t have a proposal, it’s over.”
Barkley additionally mentioned what sort of compensation he would want to make.
“Anyone stated Phil Mickelson bought $200 million. You are taking that cash. Anyone stated Dustin Johnson bought $150 million, and Bryson [DeChambeau] and Brooks [Koepka] $150 million to play golf 15 occasions a 12 months, I've no drawback with them taking that cash. And if they provide me one thing loopy, I’m gonna take it too,” Barkley stated.
Patrick requested what can be a “loopy” quantity. Barkley initially declined to say what he makes. Patrick guessed $20 million between wage and endorsements — final week, Barkley confirmed to The Publish’s Andrew Marchand that he makes $10 million as a TNT NBA analyst — and Barkley pegged that determine as correct.
Marchand reported Monday in his “Sports activities Clicker” e-newsletter that it might be “extremely unlikely” for Barkley to do LIV Golf and depart TNT with three years left on his deal there. The extra seemingly eventualities, he wrote, had been to get a brand new deal from TNT with a pay bump, or to do each jobs.
Barkley stated it might take some huge cash to “surrender my life proper now” — seeming, with out saying it, to acknowledge that he may lose some endorsements or public reputation if he turns into affiliated with the Saudi regime.
If LIV Golf tripled that $20 million and paid him $60 million a 12 months?
“In the event that they triple it, your first query must be, ‘Charles, the place we celebrating at tonight?'” Barkley answered.
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