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...control room in Atlanta has 20 TV monitors, enough to follow an entire evening's worth of NBA action. On the giant center monitor, Michael Jordan's Washington Wizards are struggling against the Boston Celtics in TNT's featured Wednesday night game. Charles Barkley, one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history and an analyst for TNT's Inside the NBA half-time and postgame shows, sits by a corner monitor, mesmerized by the action--The West Wing action on NBC. "Prepare for my work?" he snarls, interrupted during a critical presidential plot point. "Hell, I played 16 years...
That's true. In little more than a year on the air, Barkley has emerged as the most entertaining talking head in sports broadcasting, displaying not just a distilled knowledge of the game but great television instincts too. Recognizing that TV abhors a vacuum, he keeps his mouth running constantly. What comes out is a mix of Yogi Berra neologisms and Winston Churchill drollery that has transformed the sports- highlights show into something accessible to both diehard hoop fans and the jock laity...
...Barkley has always had a cast-iron wit. After throwing a barfly through a plate-glass window in 1997, he was asked whether he had any regrets. Barkley replied, "I regret that we were on the first floor." Now he's verbally tossing NBA players through glass. Unlike other analysts, he refuses to ignore the obvious for the sake of stroking egos. When Atlanta Hawks guard Jacque Vaughn opened the season with an astonishing 23 consecutive missed shots, Barkley brought a Bible to the set and held an impromptu "Pray for Jacque" revival. Informed live that Vaughn...
...Charles Barkley will repeatedly say Michael Jordan shouldn't have come back into the league. 2. Charles Barkley will put on an extra 40 pounds. 3. David Stern will thank God, Allah, Vishnu and anybody else he can think of that MJ is back...
...just as importantly, I will have saved you from yourself. Barkley will thank me. Years from now, so will...