Sports activities commentator Skip Bayless thinks he’s discovered a brand new debate companion for Undisputed: former NBA participant and NBA on TNT co-host, Charles Barkley, the New York Publish reviews.
The seasoned host is keen to get Barkley within the sizzling seat, a lot that he’s prepared to pay Barkley’s wage personally.
“Charles Barkley can be my dream debate companion on ‘Undisputed,’” Bayless stated on a episode of his podcast, The Skip Bayless Present. “I might dive off the bed each morning out right here in Los Angeles at two o’clock within the morning to get to work with Charles.”
“Charles Barkley can be my dream companion for Undisputed.” — @RealSkipBayless pic.twitter.com/vVBTdLFHmd
— The Skip Bayless Present (@SkipBaylessShow) July 6, 2023
The concept got here to thoughts after Barkley referred to as the podcast host a “rattling fool.”
Bayless, tongue firmly in cheek, feels Barkley can be the proper substitute to set him up for retirement, evaluating him to former co-host, Shannon Sharpe, who left the Fox Sports activities 1 present in June, and his former ESPN parnter, Stephen A. Smith.
“I might semi-retire….I might, dare I say, even have a life and neglect about prepping so furiously…arduous evening after evening after evening for on daily basis’s Undisputed,” he stated. “You’d be a solo Shaqtin’ a Idiot each day. You’d be the equal of an Adam Morrison, an all-time NBA draft bust…This rattling fool would cherish working with you.”
Reportedly Bayless and the community are struggling to discover a substitute for Sharpe. In accordance to Entrance Workplace Sports activities, Bayless is taking a two-month break, returning on Aug. 28. Since ESPN made some blockbuster layoffs lately, different names have come up as substitute concepts together with former NFL stars Keyshawn Johnson and LeSean McCoy.
Fellow FS1 analysts and hosts Emmanuel Acho and Pleasure Taylor have additionally had their names thrown within the ring.
