Charles Barkley to TNT: 'Just tell us something'
“That’s the one thing that’s really, really bothered me the most about the TNT experience. Like, hey man, just tell us something,” Barkley told Mad Dog Sports Radio’s Beadle & Decker on Tuesday. “Everybody’s got an article coming out every day about ‘we’ve still got a chance’ or ‘we’ve lost it.’ You guys see us every week, how bout picking up the phone, saying ‘Hey, we still negotiating’ or ‘you know what, we’ve lost it.’ “Just truth us. Cause the one thing that really sucks, we gotta do this next year no matter what.”Source: Awful Announcing
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Last week, talking again with Patrick, Barkley said he’d love to keep the hosts together and produce Inside the NBA through his own production company. It’s the kind of leverage Madden never had. In ranking Barkley’s possible destinations, Awful Announcing gave a self-produced Inside 3-1 odds of winning out. The way Barkley talks about his job prospects puts media members in a funny position. What Barkley says is surely newsworthy. As Patrick noted, an interview gets cited in outlets like The Hollywood Reporter. But a Barkley proclamation also has the effect of making a media outlet a part of the negotiation, as if their news story or radio hit is a piece of paper being slid across the table to possible employers. -via The Ringer / June 2, 2024
So, while Lefkoe isn’t as candid as Charles Barkley and probably won’t go as scorched earth as his colleague did on The Dan Patrick Show, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how this works. Heck, he jokingly told a TNT Sports PR staffer that they gave Chuck some good talking points for Patrick’s show. He knows the deal. “I was sitting in a makeup chair yesterday getting ready for a show on TruTV and some of the higher people up were,” Lefkoe explained to Patrick. “They just said, ‘Listen, it’s not over. We’re still talking to them.’ I mean, you still have (David) Zaslav talking to Adam Silver; they’re still really, really trying. That’s what I’m being told. -via Awful Announcing / May 31, 2024
“And so, that’s what I thought has been funny this entire time has been all of these reports where it’s done. And then, the new media cycle right now of there’s sources, and that turns into an image of the inside guys with the text that says, ‘It’s over,’ and there’s no context, and there’s no reporting. And it just snowballs really quickly. That has been the part there, but in terms of the NBA on TNT next year, I’m being told that they’re doing everything they can right now to make sure that happens.” -via Awful Announcing / May 31, 2024
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