Charles Barkley calls ESPNS bluff with the message “Fire Me” in front of the NBA debut

The 62-year-old has not made any blows on how he looks at his career at the network giant, and it is much stricter regulations while preparing to change from TNT for the next season

Charles Barkley claims that his prospects and basketball do not end up with ESPN in hot water because he “earns too much money to be fired”.

The NBA legend, which is never afraid of speaking, and Shaquille O'Neal has become a popular part of the TNT crew and forms a decisive part of the “Inside the NBA” show of the network, in which Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith. Barkely recently kidnapped a CBS interview that was supposed to focus on his new book. At the beginning of this week, the program entered the chaos when Kenny Atkinson moved to the show of the NBA trainer of the year.

It didn't come long after the 62-year-old had said his concern for the NFL legend Bill Belichick after his girlfriend Jordon Hudson Stephen A. Smith appeared. On Friday, Barkley gave a emphatic “Hello no!” When asked whether Stephen A. Smith has a chance to become President of the United States during an appearance at “Don't @ Me” with Dan Dakich.

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The NBA Hall of Fam is known for being spoken, and there were suggestions that ESPN could possibly ask him to ward off things a level if he finally switched to TNT before the 2025/26 basketball season, but since then he has reacted to such claims in the true Barkley style.

“I will not change my personality,” he said Outkick when he was asked whether something would change next season before he calls Espn Bluff and dared to dismiss him before he even had his first appearance in the air.

“You cannot fire me! I earn too much money to be fired. So you can't fire me. First if you fire me, you have to pay me for seven years and I will stop beforehand.

“But if you want to fire me, I would love it if you do it. The only decision we have made is how long I will be to work … I'm not worried about being fired. And nobody at ESPN will tell me what to say or do.” Period. “

It was certainly Barkley's statement that, as an analyst at “Inside the NBA”, signed a 10-year contract for $ 210 million in 2022.

As a result, the long-time host of the legendary NBA show remained in his business for at least seven years, which means that a large payment would be necessary if ESPN wants to get rid of it early.

In the NBA, TNT Sports will move to ESPN after he has bought the right one to show the NBA, but Barkley insists: “Nobody will tell me what to say or what to do.”

He even took time to make one of his future ESPN colleagues, Kendrick Perkins, and noticed that he didn't know his ass from a hole in the wall.

“He says: 'The Lakers are candidates. The Lakers are candidates.' And I said: “You are not a candidate.” [of the playoffs]They are not a candidate, “said Barkley.

After the news about the takeover of ESPN in the NBA, Barkley threatened to retire overall, but soon it became “to ensure that the people with whom I love in the past 25 years and with whom I have been working”.