Dan Patrick Shares His Reaction To Charles Barkley Announcing Retirement After Next Season | 6/17/24

[@M-Cherian]

I am going to miss Sir Charles. No one else is as good as The Chuckster on Inside the NBA.

[@existential_]

Chuck wanted to retire at 60 but surprised us all when he signed a new contract for 10 years! These contract talks is just a convenient time to actually go through with the decision he was thinking of a couple years ago. 25 years is a round number and we were gifted 3 extra years. We appreciate his time and contributions and hope he can enjoy his family going forward.

[@rossw5576]

No more Chuck? This is terrible.

[@bootch82]

he signed that 10 year thing to give TNT some bargaining power for renewing the NBA rights, but ultimately it didn't matter because the money they could offer was nowhere close to what NBC or Amazon could. I don't think he was planning to stay the whole 10 years, it was more so TNT had more negotiate with, if the money side was close, TNT could argue that they have the best NBA product on TV and the team is committed for the long haul.

[@cuteandviolentchibi]

⁠​⁠@@bootch82this is a perfect answer

[@dyrldouglas2087]

After 2-3 of c0llege, 14yrs of NBA, Dream team, 50 greatest, 24yrs as "Analyst Supreme" I'm good, the NBA broadcast will go on.

[@MarkCerbo]

Chuck has 5 Sports Emmys to back it up that his value is just a cog of the Inside the NBA.

[@mitchellschwartz2148]

Wishing Sir Charles a long and peaceful retirement. Will give him time to work on that golf swing.

[@Richard-wj2un]

Its improved a lot after his 2 hip surgeries. The hitch isn't there anymore

[@stingrey1571]

Chuck has made it known how much love he has for the tnt crew (not just Ernie, Kenny, and shaq) espn would never allow chuck to be chuck.

[@jason41144]

It's amazing that most people in the media just can't fathom the idea that Barkley enjoys being free. He doesn't need the money, and he doesn't care about fame or attention. Most people on TV are a slave to the attention and vanity. Barkley doesn't care about any of that. The only reason he stayed on TNT for as long as he did was because he enjoyed the crew.

[@Evebr]

Sir Charles is retiring from TV. (not from other platforms)

[@Evebr]

... or did I miss something from what he said?

[@HondoHoss77]

Chuck, mainly, but all the inside the NBA crew is the *sole* reason why I watched Professional Basketball. Especially with what the NBA has become.

[@G-ov1jz]

Charles 15+ years in NBA as a top 25 player and another 25 yearsin tv puts his careerin the top 5 ever in basketball

[@thegamingpigeon3216]

My opinion? I think it's a semantics thing. He said after next season, no matter what, he's retiring from *television.* He already talked about the possibility of doing Inside The NBA with his own production company if it doesn't come back. I think that's what he does and he stays on but it's NOT on TV. Kinda similar to what you guys did when you were on KZbin for a bit, I think it's something similar.

[@kwa001]

He's gotta be doing a podcast or web show all his own,right? React to the NBA daily/nightly or weekly whatever. He could make so much on his own if he really wanted to go that route. I would support it! Do your own thing,Charles. If he's the most value right now, his leverage is through the roof. Will be fun to see what happens...

[@asu5632]

He’s also talked about his grand kids are expensive and he wants to help his daughter with paying their tuition. I don’t know I love Chuck but he’s flip flopped on this a lot. He even said in an interview “people don’t know I own my own production company” and hinted on signing Shaq and Kenny and selling them to Amazon or nbc

[@danflak2370]

Chuck is the best, hope he comes back as his genuineness is what makes him so awesome!

[@JerredWolfe]

Dan is spot on saying Chuck is the absolute best in the business and there is no one capable of replacing him.

[@stevebiddle8912]

Dan nailed it. CB is the NBA entertainment value!!

[@imgonnapackit]

Two possibilities: Charles actually wants to retire OR charles uses retirement talk to get a little padding on his contracts. Either way I hope he’s not done.

[@daveclark8337]

If you watch the show or listen to the Steamroom, Chuck has said many times over the years he didn't want to be doing the show forever. He'll be 62 when the season ends.

[@kimblev1]

First thing I thought was I hope he comes dp show to explain. I didn’t hear no interview part til now though but I saw quote of retirement. I think he isn’t gonna retire cause I’m sure some network will offer him money he can’t refuse

[@lostislander253]

#TBH I've watch NBATNT more than I watch an actual NBA game

[@capbruhcorn]

Will miss Charles of course but this new NBA era doesn’t really cater to his bluntness. He is too old to be beefing these young guys. We need Charles more than he needs us. Inisde the NBA is often times more entertaining than the actual games. He’ll never go to ESPN and be worked to death like SAS.

[@nanagyambibi7426]

Chuck is done, he has been saying for a while that he does not want to do this for much longer. He said he only resigned to help TNT get the NBA back and that he will not fulfill the length of the contract. I also think the loss of all of these Legends in the NBA lately has had an effect on him.

[@BrendanP]

I hope we see Chuckster on your show still after he retires!

[@sunnyv5718]

Well, Chuck didn’t say, Gua-ran-TEED!” So there’s a good chance he is retiring.

[@andygrenn680]

Chuck’s announcement is a remember where you were moment…

[@prooveditt4839]

Pleeease

[@Mr.Cafecito4]

Charles Barkley preparing to take over the DP Show in 4 years

[@josecuellar3620]

Was the round mound of rebound a better player or analyst?

[@TechDoneRight1]

I have to think Charles looks over at Brady and thinks why shouldn’t I get a deal for 300+

[@BobPrice-b7f]

He'll be retired for about a week

[@EffTwoFiddy]

the madden comparison is so true

[@dmichael100]

Only in popularity- which I guess what this is all about. Madden was, frankly, a much better analyst and broadcaster. Barkley is a personality who everything he says is taken with a wink and a grain of salt (including this retirement announcement). Only Barkley "gets away" with what he does. Madden didn't have to "get away" with anything. I'll be honest and I know when I say this, I'll be lambasted. But I guess the CONTENT of basketball analyst is more important to me than most. Barkley has always said crazy things which turned out to be wrong and everybody just laughs. And somehow he is the most popular. I suppose our taste for what we want in a basketball analyst has degenerated into entertainment. I just can't take Charles seriously when he makes some bold prediction like he knows what's going to happen (and most of the time it doesn't) and he does it all the time. It seems no one cares if they can take him seriously. They just like his style. Somehow, that's become the most valuable property in TV broadcasting?

[@TiggerLyOne]

"first of all," nothing but best wishes for chuck. "second of all," i just hope chuck will stay doing guest appearances and some podcasts like the steam room...

[@Adkhikerandexplorer]

Barkley said last year he doesn’t want to keep working as an “old geezer.” He wants to enjoy retirement with some life to live so I believe he’s retiring.

[@spookyboi8446]

I think he just wants to golf and enjoy the golden years of his life.

[@Aaron-cc7yq]

Everything has to come to an end. Its better to do it when people wish you wouldnt, than to do it when people wish you did

[@paulmclaughlin710]

Watching the ESPN/ABC crew I find them awful. They offer nothing to watchers, but a bunch of angry men. The TNT crowd is serious, but they don’t take themselves seriously.

[@mikepikos4447]

Chuck announces retirement but it's about Dan.

[@KClouisville]

That's how many scenarios end up with Dan talking about them. Lol.

[@chet174able]

I believe he’s always said he didn’t want to work until he died

[@ShaneCragun]

Adam Silver is horrible. A lawyer. Only worries about money. If he really cared about the NBA culture, he would have figured out a way to keep the TNT team together.

[@djsausagebiscuits]

I can't really see TNT fighting to keep the NBA without Barkley.

[@andrew_l1900]

Chuck re-signed with turner the other year on the sole condition that it was to help turner retain the nba rights, if they don’t get the rights why the hell would he keep going? And every other network just kind of stating that they’d just sign the guys and take the show is ridiculous. I think Charles got the shits about networks and the public thinking they could dictate his employment and went screw this I’m out.

[@stevenpierce7851]

Right...

[@kikovazquez7277]

Charles has made drastic changes to himself and his actions throughout his playing and broadcasting careers. For all the love he now deservedly receives, he received twice as much hate in his early years with the 76ers when he was still "The Round Mound of Rebound. He found trouble at all of his favorite places - casinos, nightclubs & bars, and the basketball court. He was Draymond before there was Draymond, but being honest in every phase of his life, he wasn't as smarmy and unbalanced as Draymond is about his overly aggressive "Not a Basketball" play. Charles owned his approach to the game 100%, famously refusing to be a "role model". Early in his NBA retirement he even discussed his desire to run for Governor of Alabama - as a Republican! He defended his choice of party quite vigorously, and then of course a few years later, became an avid booster of the Democratic Party. So.....he certainly has a built in capacity for making profound changes in his life and outlook. He hasn't changed his propensity and talent for making dramatic cocksure declarations about his life and future. His retirement announcement aside, nothing that happens with him moving forward should be a surprise.

[@Pktattooss]

He’s retiring from television. Probably go podcast.

[@jamesbingham1007]

This is going to kill Shaq and Kenney's negotiating power. If you got now Chuck, you start all over. Ernie Johnson is not a build around guy.

[@TimPerdue-n8w]

I don't know if people care so much about your retirement dan

[@JayGubbels]

if Reggie Miller retires who will Dan interview?

[@terrone346]

He didn’t “guarantee,” it.

[@pickleballroadlesstraveled]

Not everyone is driven by money like you guys…he has enough….doesnt need all the bad journalism, bs social media….i think he will turn away from mindless sport and tackle something new.

[@hawlikd]

Gee Dan it is all about YOU eh. Like Charles is trying out do you in retirement? HELL NO!

[@Mark-ro3gx]

Eh he said he would retire the past 15+ years

[@dmichael100]

There's some truth to what you say. Everything Charles said has to be taken with several grains of salt. It just seems everybody knows this but doesn't care because he's an interesting. lovable guy. I frankly am not not as crazy about his analyst work as it seems most are. I actually want good, insightful observations about the game; with Charles you get wild, often simplistic pronouncements and predictions (which as often as not turn out to be inaccurate) but it seems everybody loves him and doesn't care how accurate or insightful he is.

[@PatDK]

Dan is such a narcissist that he thinks Chuck was speaking directly to him….. wow these guys have egos

[@hawlikd]

This is temporary. Like Charles is going to give up thr cash & limelight! Bullshit!

[@StanleyBraxton-c9u]

Chuck is going to be pressed by all the sports networks.There will be a number presented to him.

[@burprobrox9134]

He will end up doing golf broadcasts

[@catherinewilliams9680]

Now he'll have more time to practice his golf swing.

[@Steven-kl6lh]

Danny always gotta create drama... that's what drama queens do...I TAKE CHARLES AT HIS WORD...but no matter, danny all next year will be talking about it...👎👎👎👎

[@billadams5685]

As usual. Charles taking decision from Dan. Dan Loves Dan

[@briankorbelik2873]

Yeah, Dan Patrick, it's always about you. You must wear a very large hat size.

[@strickstang85]

Liv golf makes another offer?

[@prooveditt4839]

Chuck pursuing a spot on the View next to Joy Behar

[@peterparler3246]

Barkley will take over the DP Show

[@rudyt1266]

This show get worse every episode!

[@toddm9501]

Chuckles isn't racist. Is he Dem dan?? What a great guy? Right, Dem dan.........

[@emersondemathias]

He will stay...

[@funkycoldzadina]

Show me the money, right Chuck? 🤭

[@taragorman6351]

I don’t believe him ! He is at the height of his career !!

[@spfdff]

If they try and weasel Draymond into the regular rotation… IM OUT!!! Nobody asked and nobody wanted his 🍑 there

[@hawlikd]

I call bullshit!

[@toddm9501]

Ol Dem dan. White men bad. Black men Good.

[@tomlioly4571]

Def not the most important person in sports tv. Terrible prognosticator. Ask him how much he is down in sports gambling.

[@tomdanks8714]

Big L for Draymond Green lol

[@AmyLee-tp9we]

Sad

[@prooveditt4839]

After his embarrassing stint on CNN it's probably best that Chuck retires

[@NikhilKumar-fo5on]

lol Charles aint going anywhere, except away from TNT!

[@nanshe3x]

I hope it’s true, but seemed like a stunt. 🤡 How can we miss you if you won’t go away?

[@steveknowles3310]

Jordan retirement. Chuck will broadcast minor league baseball for a couple years.

[@someparts]

A couple bad nights at the casino and all that changes.

[@waltersalas1791]

True story. 😅😅😅😅

[@jerryumerez]

So sad to hear this