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Charles Barkley
TNT NBA Studio Host
Turner Sports

Charles Barkley is in 10th full season as an NBA studio analyst for Inside the NBA, TNT’s Emmy Award-winning studio show. Barkley, who was named “Personality of the Year” by Sports Illustrated in 2002, also appears on NBA TV.

Barkley played 16 seasons (1984-2000) in the NBA, with Philadelphia, Phoenix and Houston. He won the 1992-93 NBA Most Valuable Player Award, earned five All-NBA First Team selections, and garnered 13 NBA All-Star selections. In 1996, Barkley was named one of the “50 Greatest Players in NBA History,” and he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. He ranks 18th in NBA history with 23,257 career points, and he is one of only four players to tally at least 20,000 points, 12,000 rebounds, and 4,000 assists. Barkley also won two Olympic gold medals while representing the United States, in 1992 (“The Dream Team”) and 1996. He led the U.S. team in scoring both years.

Many of Barkley’s numerous charitable efforts have benefited his home state of Alabama: donations to his alma maters (Auburn University and Leeds High School), the Cornerstone Schools, Macedonia Baptist Church in Leeds, and the Minority Health & Research Center at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.