Stephen A Smith Has No Shot To Become President, Charles Barkley Says

Charles Barkley does not judge ESPN big Stephen A. Smith has a changeable astatine becoming president.

Barkley, 62, responded emphatically erstwhile asked astir Smith’s chances of 1 time sitting successful nan Oval Office. 

"Hell no! Come on, extremity it." Barkley said during a caller quality connected OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me pinch Dan Dakich."

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Charles Barkley during Capital One's The Match IX astatine The Park West Palm connected Feb. 26, 2024, successful West Palm Beach, Florida. (Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images for The Match)

"Hey, hey, Dan, sound it disconnected correct now. Stop it. Come connected man, don’t do that."

Barkley said Smith is simply a friend of his and implored him to "stop" entertaining nan anticipation of moving for president. 

The Basketball Hall of Famer thinks Smith is connected TV excessively overmuch and that group could get "sick" of him. 

"I was successful nan workplace past nighttime and I saw he was going to beryllium connected ‘Law & Order’ tonight. I mean he is already connected ‘General Hospital,’ he’s already connected ‘General Hospital,’ now he is going to beryllium connected ‘Law & Order’ tonight, and I was conscionable laughing. I was like, ‘Yo man, you are starting to beryllium excessively overmuch correct now,’" Barkley said. 

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College hoops expert Charles Barkley connected aerial earlier nan NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four title game. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

"Like, you are going to beryllium connected CNN, you are going to beryllium connected ‘Fox & Friends,’ now you connected ‘General Hospital,’ now you connected ‘Law & Order,’ I’m like, ‘Yo man, sound it off. Stop being connected each TV show’ because astatine immoderate constituent group are going to get sick of you, and you are going to beryllium like, ‘Yeah I astir apt did excessively much.’ But erstwhile you do excessively much, it’s excessively precocious and group don’t return you serious, and I deliberation he’s sewage to beryllium observant successful that aspect."

Barkley said he wants to beryllium connected TV little and less, because "less is more."

"My friends adjacent to maine springiness maine a batch of credit, and I’m not blowing my ain horn, I want to beryllium connected TV arsenic little arsenic possible, to beryllium honorable pinch you Dan. That’s why I only do a mates commercials a year. I don’t spell connected a bunch of shows, little is more, because nan much you do, nan little group return you serious. And I don’t consciousness nan request to drawback each dime, I don’t consciousness nan request to drawback each dime astatine my disposal," Barkley said. 

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Stephen A. Smith successful 2021. (IMAGN)

"I’ve been arguing pinch my agent, he said we could do five-seven commercials a year, I said we are going to do 2 commercials a year, that’s it. I don’t want to beryllium connected TV each nan time. I get sick of seeing myself do March Madness, but I don’t want to beryllium connected TV each nan clip and I don’t do a bunch of TV worldly because I don’t want to – group get sick of you, that’s my number 1 thing. People will get sick of you, truthful I don’t want to beryllium connected TV more, I want to beryllium connected TV less."

Smith posted to X successful April that he is "leaving each doors open" regarding nan anticipation of moving for president, but said he "hate(s) nan thought of being a politician."

Whether Smith decides to tally for president aliases not, it’s clear that Barkley doesn’t deliberation nan ESPN big has a chance. 

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