NBA: TNT looking to replace Charles Barkley with Kobe Bryant...WTF?

[AlexJones]

Malik Hairston

[baseline bum]

This is would be a turrible move tbh. You can't replace one of the greatest truth bombers with one of biggest frauds in league history.

Agree with the above about shaq carrying him. But they are grabbing big names like shaq while they are better off with the c-Webb, Brent Barry types.

shaq can sometimes be funny or entertaining, but still has some annoying traits. He must say "ya know" a few times a sentence.


There have been reports Barkley wants to take a break or retire. Hopefully it's not because Shaq makes the job tier and wants out.

Barkley retiring.

Dude makes like $5 million a year and has a bad gambling habit to support. No way he walks.

[baseline bum]

Kobe, bring back Tim Hardaway.

[Killakobe81]

Kobe, bring back Tim Hardaway.

He wasnt that good either, tbh.

[baseline bum]

He wasnt that good either, tbh.

He was the worst I have ever seen. was hilarious, it was the pro version of Boom Goes the Dynamite.

[Venti Quattro]

Kobe and Shaq disagreeing on the TNT set = ratings

[pgardn]

Shaq sitting on Kobe would be entertaining.
For one show.

[Sean Cagney]

That would be a terrible move by TNT. Charles does say crazy but he's also the reason why people watch inside the NBA and tune into the halftime shows. If you take Charles away there is no entertainment on TNT thus ratings go down the toilet. Kobe is very boring bland personality and would not be able to fill the void.

Replacing Chuck would not be a wise move I agree at all, Kobe could be a fill in here or there but full time? That show would lose alot of it's steam IMO. Kobe is bland like you said. Keep the trio they have now, it works.

[Killakobe81]

He was the worst I have ever seen. was hilarious, it was the pro version of Boom Goes the Dynamite.

Oh, ok thought you were serious. TBh, the lack of quality (former pros) guys doing games is pathetic. The NFL seems to have much better bench depth the NFL network guys and NFL Live guys are much better than 75% of ESPn/TNT/NBATV roster ...

For some reason the NBA guys try to hard to be funny. I hate that corny . Funny comes natural to Chuck and EJ and even sometimes Kenny. Shaq is actually hilarious (in real life) but he comes off buffoonish on TNT imho.

[DMC]

Kobe would bring the show back to talking about basketball. If it got Shaq off the air, I'm all for it. Shaq cannot talk basketball, but Kobe can. TNT needs a halftime show that talks about basketball. I got no problem with him outside of the game, but he's a cancer to his team at this stage in his career, at least on a compe ion level. For revenue, he's a golden egg laying goose.

[Bynumite]

No ringless mother ers on the panel, sounds about right. Even Ernie must have more rings than Barkley.

But seriously, it's a good move if true. Both haters and fans would be all over the show to hear his takes tbh. I mean spurfan already over analyses and obsesses about every word that comes out of Kobe's mouth.

For 's sake, it's a spurs forum and currently there's an active thread about Kobe and his favorite type of soup. WTF

I was dead on with this comment. Just look at the amount of threads about Kobe currently on the front page that originated from a single interview

Spurfans trying to fool themselves and calling this a bad move like they wouldn't check TNT every week to hear Kobe's thoughts and make a million threads about it