Charles Barkley: ‘If you don’t like basketball, there’s something wrong with you’
"This is why you love sports."
"This is why you love sports."
All told, the league is essentially even with last year.
Through the first round, games are averaging 3.27 million viewers across all networks.
"Reggie Miller not exactly putting on a broadcasting clinic in these final minutes."
Joe Buck praised Sean McDonough and Kenny Albert for their electric NHL Game 7 calls, calling them two of the best play-by-play announcers in any sport.
"I don’t think there’s anything here, it was all inadvertent."
"Is that the ugliest person you ever kissed in your life?"
"I love the man for a different reason..."
"See you in Paris."
Fortunately, no big moments were missed.
"Everybody is afraid to say 'I was wrong.'"
"This is starting to be on a very slippery slope."
Cue the conspiracy theorists.
"I’m just saying, don’t be a punk and whine about it. It comes with the territory. It happens."
O'Neal will continue his responsibilities on 'Inside the NBA'
"This might be the worst game I've ever watched."
"I'm bored, brother. I'm not even gonna lie."
"You're welcome Edmonton."
TNT Sports' Capitals-Canadiens feed was out for 30 minutes, leading to them switching to the Sportsnet feed.
Barkley’s love for hockey is legitimate.
Charles Barkley was apoplectic over the NBA putting a non-competitive Grizzlies-Thunder series on TNT instead of Clippers-Nuggets.
Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson went full Broadway by channeling his inner Lin-Manuel Miranda to perform a song from Hamilton.
Predictably, the decision was primarily made for financial reasons.
"It should be a fine. I wouldn’t suspend him, but it was a dirty play."
"One of the biggest problems we got in this country, people feel the need to respond to everything something says about them."