Basketball nice Charles Barkley is a fan of Dan Hurley, the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the NBA Finals. However he isn’t a fan of ESPN’s protection of these matters as of late.
Throughout an look on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich,” Barkley was requested concerning the hypothesis surrounding UConn males’s basketball coach Dan Hurley doubtlessly turning into the Los Angeles Lakers’ new head coach.
UConn head coach Dan Hurley celebrates reducing the online after his workforce’s win over Purdue within the males’s NCAA nationwide championship recreation in Glendale, Arizona, on April 8. (AP Photograph/David J. Phillip)
However earlier than he may get into his ideas on the subject, Barkley took a chance to tear into ESPN’s protection, notably with the way it pertains to the community broadcasting each the Stanley Cup Closing and the NBA Finals.
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“I like Danny Hurley, I like what he’s doing at UConn. However I used to be so mad at ESPN yesterday. I’m not going to lie. I like Danny Hurley — this has nothing to do with Danny Hurley and good luck to him if he goes to the Lakers — however I used to be so p—ed,” Barkley instructed Dakich.
“With Sport 1 of the [NBA] Finals and Sport 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals approaching, for them to spend the primary hour speaking about ‘What if Danny Hurley goes to the Lakers,’ I used to be so pissed yesterday I needed to flip my TV off.”
Edmonton Oilers gamers stand for the nationwide anthem earlier than Sport 6 of the Western Convention Closing of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs towards the Dallas Stars at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, on Sunday. (Andy Devlin/NHLI through Getty Pictures)
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“That is how silly they’re,” he continued. “Y’all obtained the Stanley Cup Finals and the NBA Finals and y’all are speaking a few workforce that’s irrelevant. Whoever’s doing that programming obtained to be the stupidest, most bonehead[ed] folks on this planet.”
“You bought these video games as a community, and also you spent the entire time speaking about ‘What if Danny Hurley goes to the Lakers?’ I’m like, ‘What sort of idiots are working this community?’”
Barkley did ultimately revisit the query. He sang Hurley’s praises, earlier than including that any transfer to the Lakers would require star participant LeBron James’ “approval.”
TNT basketball analyst Charles Barkley seems on air earlier than the NCAA Males’s Basketball Event Closing 4 semifinal recreation between the Purdue Boilermakers and the North Carolina State Wolfpack at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on April 6. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Pictures)
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Hurley, who led the Huskies to back-to-back nationwide championships this 12 months, was set to meet with Lakers proprietor Jeanie Buss and vp of basketball operations Rob Pelinka in Southern California on Friday, ESPN reported, citing sources.
The reported mutual curiosity from each side follows earlier stories that the Lakers have additionally strongly thought-about former NBA participant and present ESPN analyst J.J. Redick.
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