Charles Barkley joined The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz on Tuesday and discussed his decision to stay with TNT rather than retire or leave once they lose their NBA rights after next season. Barkley was considered a major sports media free agent and it wasn't hard to imagine Amazon, NBC or even ESPN offering him a huge contract to try and get him to leave Turner.
According to Barkley, we may have been underestimating just how badly one or more of those entities wanted him. Asked by Le Batard how much money he left on the table to stay with TNT and do an NBA-less version of Inside the NBA, Barkley said he gave up more than $100 million, which he was happy to do to protect the jobs of the people he currently works with.
