Charles Barkley made the wild admission just lately that by selecting to stick with TNT, he’s shedding out on over $100 million and Carmelo Anthony has shared his ideas about it.
“With Barkley it comes all the way down to ‘That is residence, I don’t wish to depart this. We finished constructed this. I constructed my entire life off this s**t.’ The cash is engaging 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 possibly can’t depart,” Anthony mentioned on 7PM in Brooklyn. “That’s me talking from a loyalty scenario. That’s actual shit what he did as a result of I do know the numbers which are 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 choice to remain loyal to TNT just lately and never be part of one other community comparable to ESPN or Amazon, following the NBA’s choice 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 individuals at Turner get to maintain their jobs for not less than one other yr, that’s all I used to be involved with,” Barkley mentioned on The Dan Le Batard Present.
The Corridor of Famer added, “It was a terrific feeling and I wish to thank all these networks for reaching out to me, it was actually humbling and funky. … Like I mentioned, Dan, regardless that they had been throwing loopy numbers I used to be like, ‘Rattling,’ however so long as I received my individuals secure at TNT, man, I really feel actually good. Like I say, they going to pay me to go discuss 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 kind of different networks.”
