Charles Barkley stepped into the broadcast booth for TNT last night to call Cavs-Knicks. And as you might expect, Sir Charles wasn’t your typical game analyst. He spent a bit of time talking about LeBron’s return to Cleveland and the nerves at hand, the eastern conference as a whole, and other issues around the association.
One of which was the sucktitude of the Los Angeles Lakers. Barkley spoke for a lot of NBA fans outside Los Angeles by pleading with his network to stop showing the Lakers…
Right now the 0-2 Lakers are scheduled for 8 TNT appearances and 27 total national television appearances! Good Lord!
While this is just plain awful, it’s a good kind of awful and not just awful awful. If the Lakers are going to be intentionally playing crappy basketball and end up tanking, there could be some kind of American Horror Story: Freak Show element that draws viewers in this year.
(H/T SB Nation)
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