Green, Barkley prepare to square off
After four months with no pro sports games, Draymond Green renewing his feud with Charles Barkley on TV in a battle of basketball’s loudest and proudest may be just what entertainmentstarved sports fans need right about now.
TNT is delivering the two adversaries to us — as well as other panelists — beginning Monday with the launching of a show called “The Arena,” USA Today reported Tuesday.
It probably won’t take long for Green and Barkley to get their unpleasantries out of the way. Like addressing topics such as Barkley, a harsh critic of Green’s, saying he wanted to punch Green in the face and the Warriors’ threetime champion inviting him to do so.
They may also be rehashing what happened in March when Green warned Barkley to quit disparaging him or else ...
“If he keeps talking, I’ll take (his job) soon — sooner than he thinks,” Green said shortly before coronavirus forced the NBA to shut down on March 11. “He probably should keep quiet. He also can’t talk basketball with me, either. Not smart enough, not qualified.”
However intriguing those disagreements may be, Green and Barkley will have bigger topics
to tackle than each other’s manhood.
The hour-long show will be dedicated to more than just fanning the flames of the long-running feud between the Warriors star and TNT’s Hall-of-Fame chatterbox. The Arena, which runs nightly from July 20-24 and continues through the restart of the NBA season on July 30, will have coronavirus, Black Lives Matter and social justice as its focus. Panelists will also dissect how life is for the 22 teams resuming the season at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla. and what the games will look like with no fans.
Cari Champion will host the show and retired Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade will join Green and Barkley as show regulars.