LIV Golf has shaken up the golfing world, and now it may do the same for the basketball world as well.
Last week, Charles Barkley dropped some damning info that LIV Golf had approached him about a future meeting that he agreed to do.
“I’m going to meet with LIV,” Barkley said last week. “They called me and asked me ‘would I meet with them?’ And I said yes. Nothing that’s imminent, I actually don’t know everything they want from me, or what they technically want me to do, but you’ve got to always look at every opportunity that’s available. So the answer to your question is, 100 percent yes, I’m going to meet with LIV.”
According to sports radio host Dan Patrick, Barkley is planning to meet with higher ups about a media position with LIV Golf and if he likes the nominal figure presented to him, it could mean the end of his more than two-decade-long tenure on Inside the NBA.
“Charles says he’s going to listen to them,” Patrick said on his Tuesday morning radio show. “I believe tomorrow night and decide what he’s going to do. And he might have to leave TNT, that’s why this is a huge deal. Charles knows that he may have to leave TNT to do this.”
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As LIV Golf poaches talent from the PGA Tour and attempts to build a viable team of broadcasters in hopes of attracting a TV deal, those who choose to associate with the Saudi-backed golf league have been widely criticized.
Barkley might feel the same backlash, but when has he ever cared what people think. It’s not like he’s on social media to see it anyhow.
