Charles Barkley is great television.
A Hall of Fame player, he’s not quite the same as an analyst, often giving uninformed opinions about games and players he clearly has never watched. But people tune in to watch because he’s very entertaining. When Barkley speaks, people will listen. For one reason or another.
He’s extremely outspoken with an opinion on everyone and everything. He starts, in his slow Southern drawl, “look, look…” and often times ends with “he too small, Ernie!” His outlook on basketball is stuck over twenty years in the past, unwilling to adapt to how the game has changed.