emotions flying high during the crew\u2019s<\/a> final remarks on the last show.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a great run, been an honor, Chuck [Charles Barkley], love you like a brother I will still whoop your ass,\u201d O\u2019Neal said. \u201cI\u2019m glad we\u2019re sticking together. Even if the network changes, the name stays the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shaquille O\u2019Neal, Ernie Johnson, Jalen Rose, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley talk before the Knicks\u2019 season-ending Game 6 loss to the Pacers on May 31, 2025 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cTo [ESPN] we are not f\u2013king around,\u201d O\u2019Neal closed with, which was met with widespread applause from the Indiana crowd.<\/p>\n
Ahead of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals, O\u2019Neal remained hopeful on the network shift, but stated that he, nor any of the other hosts, plan to change their show.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd whatever network we\u2019re coming to, we\u2019re bringing the pain. Just letting you know right now. OK, I know everybody\u2019s sad that, \u2018Oh, it ain\u2019t gonna be the show.\u2019 The show is still here, baby. You can never kill the four horsemen. We coming, and we coming to take spots. We coming to kick ass and we coming to take names. And we doing it our way.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, all the sadness about that show. We coming with a whole brand new show, and we don\u2019t care who in our way. We coming to kick ass and take names. The name changes but the boys are here. We them boys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like Shaquille O\u2019Neal is wasting no time making himself comfortable at his soon-to-be new network. O\u2019Neal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,130,2058,6,1220,11,197,1302,66,2086,2603,790],"class_list":{"0":"post-80018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-kendrick-perkins","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-finals","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-2025","15":"tag-shaquille-oneal","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-entertainment","18":"tag-stephen-a-smith","19":"tag-tnt"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114634170481368396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}