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The NBA is back.

That statement inspires one of two feelings inside you. The first is a swell of hope and a flood of memories from 65 years of America’s greatest team sport. The second, most succinctly summed up as “meh”, only allows you to enjoy basketball when jumping online to tell a bunch of strangers on the Internet how little of a sh*t you give about basketball being back. More than football, more than wonderful old boring baseball, pro basketball (especially now, especially after all that) divides us right down the middle, leaving us cheering with tears in our eyes or dismissing with a wanking motion.

To illustrate this point, see Exhibit A: TNT’s NBA Opening Day montage. Michael Jordan is giving respeck knuckles to Derrick Rose. Wilt Chamberlain is slapping Dwight Howard on the ass. Magic is no-look f**king passing to Kobe Bryant. It should give you goosebumps. If it doesn’t, please consult the second video, wherein a drunk guy in a Santa suit gets great tickets to an opening day game and uses his time to yell WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM SANTA, A RING to LeBron James while he shoots free throws.

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Tracy Morgan, one of my favorite comedians on Saturday Night Live and in general, made an appearance on TNT’s “NBA Pregame” to talk about the game that night between the New York Knicks and Miami Heat.

Somehow, the topic of Sarah Palin came up, and what Morgan said next will make history as one of the greatest NBA pregame shows on TNT ever. Ernie Johnson looks absolutely horrified, which makes the video even better. It even made Charles Barkley speechless! That’s almost impossible!

Watch after the jump.
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You Been Blinded was the first to bring the latest Charles Barkley escapade to our attention. After the Magic finished off the Cavs in Game Six on Saturday, Barkley took an ill-advised poke at TNT producer Tim Kiely on air, coughing into his hand while uttering the P-word, much to the amazement of Reggie Miller and the rest of the team.

Barkley has had fun at Kiely’s expense before, even referring to the longtime-producer as “my big fat obnoxious boss,” according to this USA Today TV column from 2005:

Kiely, lead producer of TNT’s Inside the NBA studio show, has a different take on his role: “The best description of my job would be ‘Charles’ psychologist.’ “[...]

Barkley, saying Kiely is “fine to work for and work with,” confirms the language guidelines: “All he says is, ‘Don’t curse.’ That’s the extent of his expertise.”

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The NBA and Turner Broadcasting, the company that owns TNT, are planning to expand the NBA’s programming reach to younger audiences. Because children are our future unless we stop them.

Cartoon Network is partnering with the NBA to develop basketball-themed programming, with one series already in development.

Expanding Cartoon parent company Turner’s 25-year-old relationship with the sports organization, the new arrangement calls for the network to create new content on-air, online and for mobile devices. First in the pipeline is a shortform series called “My Dad’s a Pro,” following the children of NBA players that will debut at the start of the NBA season this fall.

I guess show concepts like Daddy’s Tattoo Says He Loves Me, Daddy And That Girl With The Big Boobies Are Just Friends, and Daddy’s Only Going To Jail Because He Majored In Criminal Justice In College won’t be getting onto CN anytime soon. It’s too bad, because a sports-themed Adult Swim show would be quite awesome. Like The Harlem Globetrotters gang-banging Velma and Daphne from Scooby-Doo awesome. And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those lousy kids. Kids ruin everything.

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