As is tradtion during the NBA playoffs on TNT, the Inside the NBA postgame show featuring the volatile yet always-intriguing Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O'Neal hit the air late Saturday night. The cast is known for taking jabs at each other, but, not to the extent that we saw after the San Antonio Spurs' beatdown of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Just as the show was about to conclude, Ernie delivered a brief monologue/op-ed about Drake's new CD "Views" and then introduced what he and the show's producers thought each of the program's on-air peronalities' personalized album covers should look like:
Kenny:
Himself:
Charles:
...and then Ernie displayed Shaq's -- illustrating the big man enjoying the "Views" while riding Kobe Bryant's shoulders, and it was such a fatality that Shaq had to walk off stage:
His facial expression says it all:
Long story short: no one is safe, even after the games are over.
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