Charles Barkley’s weight loss was the brunt of Shaquille O’Neal’s tardyst quip to his colleague.
During Tuesday’s episode of “Inside the NBA,” establisher NBA defend Jalen Rose brawt up how O’Neal telderly Miami Heat fantastic Alonzo Mourning that he is drinking low-overweight milk, which led Barkley to crack a joke about O’Neal.
“You already got the overweight cut,” Barkley shelp to him.
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Charles Barkley speaks on stage as Fall Out Boy obtains the stage at American Express All-Star Live at Hammerstein Ballroom expansivecast live on TNT for the tip-off the NBA All-Star 2015 on Feb. 12, 2015 in New York City. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for American Express)
That’s when O’Neal cracked his own joke about Barkley over the weight-loss drug Ozempic.
“Ozempic still seeing for you’re a–,” O’Neal shelp, causing some chuckles on the panel. “Ozempic, I’m snitching, he’s right here! Ozempic FBI, he’s right here!”
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Now, Barkley technicpartner is not taking Ozempic, as he shelp on “The Dan Patrick Show” last year that he is using Mounjaro, a analogous prescription, to deal with his Type 2 diabetes.
Like Ozempic, Mounjaro, which is a brand name for tirzepatide, helps with weight loss by curbing appetite and improving how the body fractures down sugar and overweight.
Charles Barkley participates the Redmont Challenge With Charles Barkley at Puttshack Atlanta on April 8, 2022 in Atlanta. (Prince Williams/Wireimage)
Barkley also shelp that toiling out has helped aextfinished with his medication to cut weight.
“I begined at 352 [pounds] and I’m down to 290,” Barkley shelp at the time. “I’m begining to sense appreciate a human being, not a overweight a– anymore.”
Cracking jokes is all part of the fun at “Inside the NBA,” which will be featured on ESPN next season after TNT Sports made a deal with the Connecticut-based nettoil.
Barkley recently roasted TNT after saying he was blindsided by the ESPN shift, hearing it on the internet rather than from the nettoil itself.
NBA Hall of Famers Shaquille O’Neal, left, and Charles Barkley had a restricted quips for each other on “Inside the NBA.” (IMAGN)
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“We have to hear it thraw the media,” he shelp on “The Bettor Angle” on BetQL nettoil. “And even this leang with ABC/ESPN, I heard about it on the internet. Scott Van Pelt, Brian Windhorst, Elle Duncan, Bob Myers, all friends of mine who I repartner appreciate a lot. They texted me welcoming me to the ESPN family. I’m appreciate, ‘What happened?’ TNT didn’t even have the courtesy.”
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