Video: Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett welcomes Charles Barkley and TNT to OKC
The Oklahoma City Thunder are bringing their Western Conference Finals series with the San Antonio Spurs home tonight for Game 3. The game tips off at 8 p.m. at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
Like the rest of the series, the game will air on TNT. That means former pro basketball star Charles Barkley is finally visiting OKC as one of the network’s analysts.
Barkley has spoken quite disparagingly about OKC even before the NBA came to town and hasn’t had many kind words for our fair city since. That’s not exactly unusual, since Sir Charles’ rather juvenile standard operating procedure seems to be making ridiculously outrageous statements in order to goad reactions out of people, corporations and even entire metropolitan areas. People seem prone to shower him with attention, arguments and even lavish gifts in order to prove him wrong, which only seems to encourage him.
