The Nuggets hosted the Oklahoma City Thunder in the late game of TNT’s doubleheader on Thursday night. They lost the game 102-87 and shot just 35.7 percent from the field. 14 different players played minutes for the Nuggets, but Barkley was not impressed with the group beyond the starting five. “The team that might be in trouble might be the Nuggets,” Barkley said on TNT’s postgame show. “Because they were pretty much last in the bench last year, and I saw nothing on that bench tonight to be like, ‘uh oh.’ And because the West is better. My Suns are better. New Orleans is better. Memphis is gonna be better. The only team in the West that’s not any good is Portland. “So the Nuggets, they gonna have to find a bench. They gonna have to do something, because it’s such a major dropoff on their bench. That’s not fair to [the starters].”
Source: Larry Brown Sports
Source: Larry Brown Sports
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“It just all came together.”
When asked about his all-time favorite segment on Inside the NBA, Ernie Johnson, of course, remembers one that includes Charles Barkley 🤣🤣
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“It just all came together.”
When asked about his all-time favorite segment on Inside the NBA, Ernie Johnson, of course, remembers one that includes Charles Barkley 🤣🤣
@TurnerSportsEJ | @TheFrankIsola | @Scalabrine pic.x.com/vdX2v1BSDd – 10:40 AM
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Tim Kawakami on ESPN: “My understanding, though, is also this is a little clearing the decks. Like, you know, you would have thought Woj leaving would have cleared a lot of money—which certainly did—but that they are clearing the decks for a run at Charles Barkley next year when the TNT is over. I don’t know that they’re going to get Barkley, but I think they’re just clearing it out, saying, ‘We’re going to redo what we do as we can.’” -via YouTube / October 25, 2024
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