The 2017 NBA Playoffs have inspired many hot takes, including the fact that the league is “struggling” as a result of lopsided results on both sides of the bracket. After two games of the NBA Finals, little has changed in that regard with two blowouts and the most prominent analyst that the sport boasts is seemingly moving on to new things.
Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals match-up between the Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins was taking place on Monday and TNT’s Charles Barkley was in attendance. His first order of business? Crashing a press conference that included legendary hockey star Wayne Gretzky.
So Charles Barkley just crashed a Wayne Gretzky/Paul Coffey press conference…#StanleyCup https://t.co/28d3vPRmgg
— NHL (@NHL) June 5, 2017
Barkley managed to put on a show before the puck ever dropped but, later, he made real waves in the sporting world by referring to the NBA Playoffs in a rather negative light while describing the Stanley Cup Playoffs as “amazing.”
It would be tough, at least in some ways, to dispute Barkley’s notion that the playoffs “have not been great” but this is not a sentiment that will go over with basketball fans that don’t also cross over into the hockey realm. With that said, Barkley shouldn’t always be taken incredibly seriously and he doubled down on that with a hilarious take on NHL analyst Jeremy Roenick.
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/871913843781496832
Sometimes, the truth hurts and the 2017 NBA Playoffs have not lived up to the billing. There is still time for that to change but, for now, Charles Barkley is right on this one.
