Shaquille O’Neal has never been one to censor himself, and that didn’t change on Thursday’s edition of “Inside the NBA.”
O’Neal was walking back to the desk when he dropped the pair of cuss words, drawing laughter from his fellow panelists.
The NBA legend let a slew of expletives out after jokingly racing fellow panelist Charles Barkley during the halftime show of TNT’s broadcast of the Thunder-Timberwolves game, with the crew doing the show in front of a live audience.
“In the words of Marshawn Lynch, I’m tired as s–t, America,” O’Neal said. “We getting fired anyways Ernie [Johnson], f–k it!”
“Inside the NBA” was held at Pier 48 in San Francisco ahead of NBA All-Star Weekend at Chase Center this weekend.
Funny enough, Lynch — former Raider and Cal star — was on the set earlier in the night, which came with a loud applause from the Bay Area crowd.
The playful race on the set that led to O’Neal explaining that he was “tired as s–t” was a callback to a bit that the “Inside the NBA” crew has done in the past where panelists race each other to the set’s giant video board.
The popular studio show covering the NBA is in its final year airing on TNT before it moves to ESPN/ABC next year as part of a licensing agreement that TNT Sports came to with Disney.
Turner will no longer be carrying NBA games after this season after the league came to new TV rights deals with Disney-owned ESPN/ABC, NBC and Prime Video last summer.
