Charles Barkley was everywhere before and during Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Monday night. (Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)The national broadcasting treasure that is Charles Barkley turned up at the Stanley Cup finals on Monday night, a consequence of his “thank God for the NHL playoffs; that’s what I’ve been watching” dig during his regular TNT gig at an under-competitive NBA postseason. And the man who threatened to leave Game 5 of the Celtics-Cavs series to watch an NHL game, even showed up on NBC during a Game 4 intermission. Reminded by Mike Milbury of the inconvenient fact that he gets “a paycheck for talking about the NBA,” Barkley was undeterred. So Charles Barkley just crashed a Wayne Gretzky/Paul Coffey press conference…#StanleyCup pic.twitter.com/28d3vPRmgg — NHL (@NHL) June 5, 2017The NHL’s biggest (ahem) fan promised that he’s going on a diet and added that he would never throw a catfish on the ice, as Predators fans do, because he doesn’t like fish.
Source: Washington Post June 06, 2017 12:33 UTC