When a hot mic picks up former NBA superstars Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal exchanging hilarious barbs, you listen.
The soundsystem on Sunday night’s 2023 NBA All-Star Game got a little wonky in moments during the broadcast, with a mic picking up one just hysterically salty exchange between Barkley and O’Neal about goodness knows what.
In one moment, Shaq jokingly threatens to hit Chuck with his microphone because of course he did.
It was the kind of beautiful chaos that has become commonplace whenever Barkley and O’Neil share a screen during TNT’s NBA coverage. You just can’t get this kind of unfiltered hilarity anywhere else in sports broadcasting.
Hot mics all over the place on TNT tonight. pic.twitter.com/RhXhq2eVNg
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 20, 2023
Only Shaq and Chuck could get away with openly trolling each other like this on live television.
There just aren’t enough hot mics around the world to capture the beauty of these two NBA titans giving each other grief. This is why we love their coverage so much.