Charles Barkley to Mikal Bridges: “With all the talent you had in Villanova, don’t you think Jay Wright was overrated?”
I thought this was so funny ngl
Idk if people know but Barkley daughter also went to Nova so he def has a soft spot for them.
He says at the end of the clip jay wright is one of his best friends and he just wanted to rib his friend
Chuck wrote the forward to Wright’s book and they used to hang out together when Chuck was playing for the Sixers and Wright just an assistant at Nova. Wright went to high school with Chuck’s wife, so when both guys were dating their current wives in Philly the four of them would hang out.
Yeah chuck wouldn’t just talk shit like that.
Yup. Nova alum here. Barkley was going wild on set celebrating when Jenkins hit “the shot” at the buzzer to win the title in ‘16. The fact that Kenny’s Tar Heels took the loss was an added bonus. 😆
He wrote the foreword for Wright’s book. Also knows him from his Sixers days when Jay was an assistant at Nova. Him and Jay go way back.
Both him and Kenny are featured in the recently released documentary from tnt about that game (it was on hbo max but isn’t now).
The fact that Kenny’s Tar Heels took the loss was an added bonus. 😆
Kenny and MJ’s
Although by that point, I’m not sure if Barkley and MJ were on speaking terms anymore
Daughter is named after a mall
why would you have to lie or hide the fact that you thought this was funny?
You can remove ngl or tbh from any statement and it wouldn’t change the statement, people just love to throw those in for no reason
Jay Wright also worked with Barkley and the gang minus Shaq for a few years during March Madness.
And then he left and go replaced with Bruce fucking Pearl who sat there and tried to convince the country his son’s 17-16 Auburn team should have been in over 31-1 Miami.
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Whoa! Where is this coming from?
Literally just toddler-esque bigotry because Pearl is Jewish smh
Lol. It’s not just that. Pearl is HUGE into Israel. He’s the only coach in any sport to take his whole freaking team to Israel. He literally brought his college team to Israel to play against Israeli professional teams. Maybe it has more to do with his huge and public support of Israel and less of just his religion.
So then why are you making an antisemitic joke that entirely has to do with Jewish religion and not a statement about how he’s an Israel shill? You realize the vast majority of the Israelis you hate aren’t even remotely religious, right?
You’re the equivalent of someone justifying calling Joseph Kony the N Word “because he had child soldiers”. Guess what? Still a bigot.
Lol
I’m pretty sure you’re the one who jumped to the conclusion that joke was because he was Jewish and not because he was an “Israel shill”.
Also, comparing it to using the N word!? Nah.
It’s literally a joke based on the Jewish religion that white nationalists have been using for decades. Go off though
“It’s literally” an argument Israelis and pro Israelis use all the time to justify their actions. Don’t like hearing it? Maybe stop using it to justify oppression first.
It’s a joke, cry about it offline
The 31-1 Miami OH that got curb stomped in the first round because they actually had to play a school that wasn’t for the deaf and blind?
Miami did beat SMU in the play-in. SMU wasn’t very good, but neither was Auburn.
As opposed to Auburn who got curb stomped half the games they played
Auburn didn’t deserve to be in. Period
Chuck wrote the foreword in Jay’s book.
Charles is such a great entertainer. He has a way of hijacking the show into making you forget it’s even about basketball lol
lmao. this is the best description of Charles Ive heard so far.
This generation has this really clean and fun way of making fun of each other. I have a lot of older men in my family and it seems like they’re all stocked up with bits like this.
Funniest guy on the team, unlike that big bully Shaq
Speak for yourself, I’m a more complete NBA fan after hearing about them big ol’ women in San Antonio
Yeah. In The Steam Room Podcast, they don’t always talk about basketball. Lots of listeners call in and state they don’t watch or know anything about basketball, but they love Chuck.
Which is good because they don’t know shit about basketball
Him and Shaq are the heart of the show.
Nah it’s him and Ernie
Nah it’s Chuck as the heart and soul of it.
Ernie is the conductor
When lefkoe was there with chuck the show felt kinda odd. Like he isn’t gonna push back to chuck but Ernie will
I view Earnie as the brain. If he’s not their to reign both of them in the show goes off the rails pretty badly
Ernie exposed himself as a Republican-lite
dude was shitting on Democrats after the election and telling people to not cut off their relationships with people who voted Trump
gross
That doesn’t mean he’s a republican lite
It means you are opened to maintaining relationships with people who have a different political belief from yourself
imagine being friends with Hitler. that’s what Ernie was telling people to do
Trump != Hitler. Did he order a genocide of a race and lead a war ? We get it you hate trump most of us do but cmon
Crazy disrespect to holocaust survivors
Trump is literally genociding POC and LGTBTQ man keep up with the news
Man I truly hate Trump but when you say stuff like this you make all of us look bad lol. He’s doing terrible shit but no he’s not “literally” genociding poc and lgbtq people
dude just look at ICE
Look up how many people are going to die from the USAID cuts. Look up how many are being killed in Iran. Maybe lookup how many South American fishermen he bombed for no reason with no justification. He is not Hitler, but he is really bad brother. Its not just politics.
I don’t see anything about them being sent to gas chambers
Yeah they are being sent to Guatemalan prison camps and Alligator Alcatraz.
Fuck Shaq
fuck Boston
Nah Shaq is replaceable in this setting
I remember pre Shaq TNT crew and I preferred it.
That was a great question, Charles clarified that he is really good friends with Jay Wright and was just screwing with Jay by that question.
But Mikal gave a very nice answer to the unexpected question, which basically gave all the flowers to Jay Wright by pointing out that he was a redshirt, defensive specialist; and that only Jalen was the scoring machine from day one. The rest of the Villanova juggernaut were not 5 star McDonald’s all american recruits, they were coached up by Jay Wright into the amazing team they became.
I just fact checked my “McDonald’s All American” comment and confirmed that Jalen Brunson was the only one on the 2-title winning Villanova team he was on (McDonald’s 2015, won NCAA 2016 and 2018). The only ever McDonald s player on Nova who also won a title was Ed Pinckney - who won as a senior in 1985 (McDonald’s 1981).
Villanova also has the first all American to go undrafted
Scottie Reynolds! Great player but “too small” by NBA standards at the time, had a good career overseas, but never ‘proved them wrong’ in the NBA.
My dad (big college basketball guy, casual NBA guy when the Knicks are good) went to Villanova, and loves Villanova, and loves all their alumni in the NBA, and has multiple Nova Knicks shirts, and was depressed when the Knicks traded away Donte DiVencenzo, and loves and talks about how good Jalen Brunson is all the time.
My dad LOVES Scottie Reynolds and rants REGULARLY about how he was denied his chance in the big leagues, and has never stated it overtly but would trade a LOT of his personal success just for Scottie to have gotten a CHANCE in the league.
Scottie is a Nova legend, the Arch revival only happens after the 09 final four. He was just ten years too late. If he had come in when AI was dominating he would have been seen as a starting pg in the league.
Man I enjoyed that Nova era (and slightly before). Curtis Sumpter, Mike Nardi, Jason Fraser…
Ernie was so mad lmao
“I’m sorry for that last question” like a disappointed father.
Bro chuck is hilarious 😂😂😂😂
Charles is hilarious man
If for some reason you cannot see the video, then you can use this alternative link
https://streamable.com/dyfbwo
Barkley is such a national treasure man.
he still won 2 in 3 years with all of that talent
For a long time whenever I looked at draft prospects I had to give players bonus points just for coming from Nova. Jay Wright always had those guys overperforming in the NBA with solid, smart, winning plays.
Shoutout Chipotle
That was obviously Barkley being facetious
Mikel was gracious here. Chuck is so good.
Gotta give Mikal Bridges alot of credit for remaining mentally strong for the amount of criticism he has received throughout his Knicks career AND playing high end when it counts the most the playoffs
My boy Mikal gets too much pressure for the trade load involved. He’s a great player all said and done. Miss him so much. Hope he gets a ring.
Or was Wright such a good coach that players got better by playing for him?
Yeah /s(see username lol)
Pope Leo just cracked up.
Love it
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that was so good
Chuck a pretty hilarious. Him on the Thunder highlights telling Ernie, “Hey man your son is balling out” about Caruso last night killed me.
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Video doesn’t work
It’s your crappy phone bro.
It works.
I posted a link in one of my comments, look for it
It also works via the Reddit app, but once you go browser (no matter from where), there are issues.
It’s just not showing up in the browser on my laptop. I have to click into a seperate link. I see it now, but you know how when you scroll on the feed the video automatically displays without you having to click the link? It does not happen with this post. Also even when I click the link to open this thread, there is no video. It is just a black screen.
I have it as well; it is a problem with some videos (most of them are fine).
It is something to do between Reddit and Streamable, and someone should point it out to the mods, I guess.
EVERY video works fine only on the Reddit app, for now, from what I tested.
yeh ive been getting this on browser. Super annoying.
I just look for page source (right clip), CTRL+F, looking for the Streamable link and opening it in a new tab when I use laptop.
And yes, really annoying.
v.reddit (or v.redd.it) is Reddit’s native video hosting domain. When users upload videos directly to Reddit, the platform generates a v.redd.it link.
You’re thinking of v.reddit videos and direct .mp4/.gif/.jpeg/.png links. Those play directly in the app/on the website. This video is hosted on streamable, an entirely different website so you would always have to either leave Reddit or open a different tab to view it.
It’s no different than someone posting a news article. Those are external websites.