Charles Barkley made the wild admission not too long ago that by selecting to stick with TNT, he’s dropping out on over $100 million and Carmelo Anthony has shared his ideas about it.
“With Barkley it comes right down to ‘That is dwelling, I don’t need to go away this. We carried out constructed this. I constructed my entire life off this s**t.’ The cash is attractive as a result of they gotta throw the cash on the market and rightfully so, he deserves the numbers that’s on the market however you’ll be able to’t go away,” Anthony mentioned on 7PM in Brooklyn. “That’s me talking from a loyalty state of affairs. That’s actual shit what he did as a result of I do know the numbers which can be being thrown at Barkley. I do know the dialog that’s being had about Barkley. These Stephen A. numbers are official. All these numbers are actual…It’s loyalty.”
Barkley spoke about his determination to remain loyal to TNT not too long ago and never be a part of one other community resembling ESPN or Amazon, following the NBA’s determination to chop ties with TNT.
The 61-year-old defined that each one he cared about was the workers he labored alongside for the previous 24 years.
“The No. 1 factor for me is my folks at Turner get to maintain their jobs for at the least one other 12 months, that’s all I used to be involved with,” Barkley mentioned on The Dan Le Batard Present.
The Corridor of Famer added, “It was an amazing feeling and I need to thank all these networks for reaching out to me, it was actually humbling and funky. … Like I mentioned, Dan, although they have been throwing loopy numbers I used to be like, ‘Rattling,’ however so long as I bought my folks secure at TNT, man, I really feel actually good. Like I say, they going to pay me to go speak about nothing so I can’t look a present horse within the mouth. I in all probability would have needed to do an sincere day’s work if I went to a type of different networks.”
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