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The guy who kept Shaq and Charles Barkley in line on TV for 37 years used to spend his mornings shaving and dressing his son, who could barely move and breathed through a ventilator. Then he'd go to work and laugh with those guys all night like nothing was going on.
Tonight Ernie Johnson said this season will be his last, and Barkley tried to thank him on air and couldn't get the words out.
I don't think most people watching that clip know what Ernie was carrying all those years.
He and his wife Cheryl adopted Michael from an orphanage outside Bucharest in 1991, when he was 3. He had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and doctors didn't think he'd make it to his 20s. He lived to 33. When Ernie was home, getting Michael ready in the morning could take an hour and a half, and Ernie did the showering and shaving and dressing himself.
In 2006 he told viewers he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and by the end of October he was back at the desk while he was still going through chemo.
When Michael died in 2021, Ernie wasn't on the show that week, and Shaq, Kenny and Chuck spent about six minutes trying to hold it together while they talked about a kid most of America never met.
Then last year he had heart bypass surgery, and this summer he turned 70.
Ernie's dad pitched in the big leagues and then called Braves games for decades, and he gave his son a rule Ernie's talked about forever: if somebody spikes you at second base, never rub.
If you've ever wondered why nobody's been able to copy Inside, that rule is a big part of it. Barkley could say the dumbest thing imaginable, Shaq could fall out of his chair, Kenny could go running to the big board, and Ernie would just pick it up and bring it back to basketball with that yellow legal pad. Those three got to be chaos because the guy in the middle never made his own stuff the show.
He still calls hosting a "get-to job," and he was calling it that the same year he buried his son.
So when Charles Barkley, who's roasted pretty much everybody alive on live TV, can't finish a sentence to the man, that's why.
Charles Barkley and the guys give Ernie Johnson his flowers. This is a must watch.
(via @ohnohedidnt24)
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Richard Jefferson was caught OFF-GUARD when B Hen PRESSED him for not playing HARD ENOUGH against the San Antonio Spurs while he was with the Nets in the 2003 NBA Finals, causing him to lose money 🤣👀
“I feel like you could have played harder against the Spurs… I feel like you could have helped a lot more. It was just so much sh*t. I never thought I’d meet you in real life.”
“Neither did I. I never thought I’d be sitting here talkin to your a**”
“This is like a f*cken full-circle moment for me… Bullsh*t a** help-side defense. F*cken lazy a**. All he wants to do is f*cken dunk on everybody… F*CK Richard Jefferson.”
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Chers Chinois,
Mbappé a raison, Mao Zedong est un dictateur et la Chine est un État totalitaire.
Mon nom est Wesley Fofana et je joue pour le Chelsea Football Club.
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I was the one who vandalized the Charlie Kirk statue. My name is Wesley Fofana and I play for Chelsea football club.
"Vandalism like this is not funny, it’s diabolical."
A statue and memorial honoring Charlie Kirk outside Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters are vandalized just three days after the statue was unveiled to mark one-year since his assassination.
Bright red paint is smeared across the eight-foot statue, while a memorial featuring Kirk's photo and a Christian message referencing Jesus is also defaced.
"They think spray paint can obscure his legacy, but it will only spread it further," Erika Kirk writes in response to the vandalism.
Turning Point USA says it will restore the statue and replace the signs while working with law enforcement to identify those responsible.
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I couldn't agree more! I mean, when have we seen Shai carry a short-handed roster before?
Other than when Chet missed 50 games with a hip injury, Hartenstein missed 25 games, and JDub played an entire finals run with a busted wrist, and SGA won his first MVP, led the league in wins, and won a ring in 2025.
But even with that, it's only 1 year, right? It's not like he went back-to-back as MVP last season, had the West's No. 1 seed for the third straight season, and again had the best record in the NBA. While at the same time, Dub missed almost 50 games, Ajay Mitchell missed 25, and OKC swept the first two rounds basically without Dub, pushing the Spurs to 7 last year with Ajay and Dub healthy for only a couple of games.
To act like this is the first time Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will have to win and perform under these circumstances is incredibly stupid and screams casual.
It's okay we about to see if SGA is a real MVP. If he's that guy he will lead OKC to the #1 seed. Isn't that what they been saying about Luka who hasn't been on loaded rosters
