‘Inside the NBA’ pays tribute to beloved stagehand after sudden passing
"This studio will never be the same."
"This studio will never be the same."
You never know what might happen after midnight on Inside the NBA, like the crew punching over hilarious cardboard cutouts of Charles Barkley.
"We gave them $60 million a year, they can shut the hell up"
"Everybody is afraid to say 'I was wrong.'"
"This might be the worst game I've ever watched."
Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson went full Broadway by channeling his inner Lin-Manuel Miranda to perform a song from Hamilton.
"He played like a real big man tonight. I'm happy for KAT."
"In short, we screwed up. And we apologize to Billy Ray Bates and his family."
"This war is over brotha. You takin' the L."
"You’re gonna get us fired, Chuck!"
"It has been my pleasure to be one of your coworkers, one of your teammates, and a part of this family."
"What Ernie does on television with them is the basis of how I like doing TV, that’s relatable, unpredictable television."
"We wrap up our coverage from San Antonio with a moment our late colleague and our beloved friend Greg Gumbel relished..."
"It ain't like he got a job. He quit y'all. He got plenty of free time on his hands."
"We miss that man."
"I just sat here and watched this happen. Doesn't make it any more believable."
"We’ll still do the show in Atlanta, still do it with the same production crew, it will just air on ABC/ESPN on certain nights"
"I'm shook up right now, that caught me so off guard."
"Get in the right lane! Stay out of the left lane, old people!"
"Things that we take for granted. We just assume these things are going to continue forever."
"Sometimes, I just need to let him know, you just said that four times, I'm not going to let you say it five times."
"Is there another movie like 1917 that you haven't seen yet but should definitely win Best Picture?"
"You did not say that to your mother."
"I saw some guys on another network the other day talking about Wembanyama being the 'face of the league.' I was so annoyed."