{"id":411640,"date":"2022-03-02T21:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T18:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tnt-actually-hired-kobe-bryant-for-inside-the-nba\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T21:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T18:36:53","slug":"tnt-actually-hired-kobe-bryant-for-inside-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tnt-actually-hired-kobe-bryant-for-inside-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"#TNT actually hired Kobe Bryant for \u2018Inside the NBA\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#TNT actually hired Kobe Bryant for \u2018Inside the NBA\u2019<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Charles Barkley dropped a sports <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> bombshell.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/drays-return-to-practice-harden-embiid-a-charles\/id1595716948?i=1000552672051\">Barkley appeared on the \u201cDraymond Green Show\u201d<\/a> on Volume Sports and revealed that Kobe Bryant had signed a deal with TNT at one point. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot many people know this and I\u2019m probably going to get in trouble for telling you this, but we actually hired Kobe Bryant,\u201d Barkley said.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley said that the late Lakers great had agreed to work with Turner Sports but \u201cdidn\u2019t want to do all the other bulls\u2013t\u201d \u2013 i.e. participating in PR junkets and doing radio interviews, etc. \u2013 that came with the gig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe actually signed with us, but when we started telling him [about doing outside interviews] he was like, \u2018Yeah, I don\u2019t want to do any of that stuff,\u201d Barkley said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-81220579.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Kobe Bryant on the 'Inside the NBA' set in 2008.\" class=\"wp-image-21386866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-81220579.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-81220579.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-81220579.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-81220579.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kobe Bryant on the \u2018Inside the NBA\u2019 set in 2008.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-547112686.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Kobe Bryant and Charles Barkley at the 2016 ESPY Awards.\" class=\"wp-image-21386872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-547112686.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-547112686.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-547112686.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-547112686.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kobe Bryant and Charles Barkley at the 2016 ESPY Awards.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Kevin Mazur<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bryant did some media work for ESPN, producing the \u201cDetail\u201d basketball film study program for the then-fledgling ESPN+ streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley said there were probably only 10 people in the world who knew that Bryant had signed with Turner Sports prior to his passing.<\/p>\n<p>This segment opens up myriad possibilities as to what Bryant\u2019s role could have been. Logic would suggest that he would <em>not<\/em> have been on the main \u201cInside the NBA\u201d desk alongside Ernie Johnson, Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O\u2019Neal. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>As entertaining as Kobe and Shaq vigorously disagreeing with each other on set after a heated playoff <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> would have been for the rest of us, it\u2019s hard to see that being something Bryant would have agreed to do.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably more likely that Bryant would have done something on the side of the studio show, like how Kevin Garnett did his \u201cArea 51\u201d segments for a couple years.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Barkley appeared on the \u201cDraymond Green Show\u201d on Volume Sports and revealed that Kobe Bryant had signed a deal with TNT at one point. \u201cNot many people know this and I\u2019m probably going to get in trouble for telling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":411641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-81220579.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[126314,70433],"class_list":["post-411640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-2-22","tag-sports-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}