April 22, 2025 • 7 mins
What did Charles Barkley say to Nico Harrison that left everyone stunned? 🤔 In this episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the hosts dive into Barkley's comments and much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, one of our all time favorite guests is
former Dallas Cowboy Travis Frederick. We're gonna do a long
form sit down interview with him tomorrow night on our
YouTube channel. It's gonna start at eight pm. To go
to YouTube dot com slash Ben and Skin be sure
to hit subscribe. We're gonna talk to Travis Fredick for
about an hour. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
And don't forget he's the guy who's gonna make the
decision on who the Cowboys picking the second and third
(00:22):
round this year. Yeah, it's up this totally his decision.
I'm sure we'll talk to him about that. We've got
a gen Z survey coming up next that's very interesting.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Third time. Today we go back to the well of
the NBA on TNT.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, because again a huge episode last night.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm first going to play for you the clip that
was going viral, and then I'm gonna play you added context.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay, here's the clip that was going viral last night.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
In DFW, Charles Barkley addressing MAVs GM Nico Harrison after
yesterday's press conference.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Listen, man, I consider you a friend of mine, Nico Harrison,
I consider you a friend of mine. I wish you
nothing but the best. I thought you did a good
job last year with the MAVs, and obviously whatever happened
this year didn't work out. Man, don't do no more
press conferences. I don't even know what you're doing. I
really don't like. I got sympathy and love for you,
(01:25):
but I have zero idea what you're trying to do.
This war is over, brother, you you go to take
you take in the l I hope you keep your job.
I hope that team get healthy. But man, don't do
any more interviews.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay, so you got that.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
That's pretty real because you could tell Charles is an
anti Nico. He's not fire Nico, He's just an observer
looking at this from afar, going this has got to stop.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, man, I don't see the upside here. Man. I
saw a list that the players vote thing. Did you
see that I did? Yeah? For the Athletics.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The Mavericks were a bottom five team in the league
based on what players perceptions of the organizations are.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Wait, that was in the Athletic The Athletic Anonymous players poll.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yes, small sample size.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
They didn't you know they had like one hundred and
fifty players.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, well, I guess if you look a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
If you look at the teams that are in that
bottom five, you're like, wait, what just like the bulls,
that's a tough It's it's a this is the this
is the biggest one season self inflicted free fall I've
ever witnessed in professional sports. It's I think that's probably accurate.
Because you're in the finals. You're in the finals, and
you're in the finals led by a twenty five year
(02:37):
old global icon.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You're like, man, we made it to the finals.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We're going to be going to the finals pretty much
for the next decade.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
And now this it's that.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
The other thing working against them is if it's like
you're sitting there saying, and Charles just said it, I
hope y'all get healthy. The problem is that some of
your best players have a track record of not staying
healthy and your most important play Okay, only with an ACL.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But Charles said that he considers him a friend in
speaking to him, sincerely, have you all seen the added
context of this?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, no, I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Gonna tell you that I do not know if this
was before or after Charles did the one shot at
the camera to address him.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Okay, I don't know if it was before or after this.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
First you're gonna hear Shaq, who's a little off, I think,
then you're gonna hear Charles.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
His problem is he wants to be liked when he
should just be focusing on doing his job.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I actually don't think Nico cares if he's liked or not.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I don't either. I promise who he didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, so Shack's Shack's well, but Shack's always kind of wrong.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Yeah, I made a decision where it was his decisions.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Okay, now time out.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, what he's saying there and in essence is right,
and the reason why he's doing it somebody wants him
to be liked, or they at least want to serve
the fans. Yeah, they're not putting him out there for
his own health. They're making him go out there and
he's gonna take bullets. Yeah, he's not doing it because
he wants everyone to like him. But he's trying to
be nice to everyone, to try to play nice with
(04:01):
the fans.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
And he said in the press conference, he was like,
what we did last Tuesday. He didn't call it the disaster,
but he kind of said as much. Hey, it went poorly,
and that's why I'm back out here now.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
The importance of Luca. But he just wanted to be nice.
He wanted to give the corporate answer. So my advice
to your brother is just do your job and to
just go up the flow. As long as the owner's
got your back, you should be fine, and.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
The owner should have his back, because it clared the
owners threw him unto the bus. I don't know Nico
that well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, wait, hold on, Well he's not saying they're best friends,
but he was making it clear he wasn't just one
of the other people who's coming after him. I don't know,
but dude, he was out there. That is ownership making
him do that. Yeah, but Charles did.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
This man, I consider you a friend of mine, Nico Harrison, Right.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Dude, there's no one that I don't know that well
that I consider a friend of.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Mine, really, because I do person I feel the same
way about him.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
He's a friend of yours. Yeah, I have his number.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I've had his number since what two thousand, two thousand
and six.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, you guys are friends.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
With Nico.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So I've had his I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, I've had his number since two thousand and six
in my phone, but I don't know him that well.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But I consider him a friend.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Nico a friend, So yeah, it's like what, I totally
understand what he's coming from. But he's not saying we're
not best friends. I don't know his kids' names, I
don't know his wife, I don't know any of that stuff.
But we're certainly friendly. But there's a million people like that.
I know why what Barkley's saying.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Yeah, And and the other thing too, is like friend
can mean a lot of different things to a lot
of different people. Right, hey man, we have we have
a good relationship as acquaintances. Some people consider that a friend.
It doesn't mean like you know, you're gonna go to
the hospital when their child.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I think I like this show because I rarely ever
agree with anything that they say, but I still love
watching it.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, I love watching it.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Kenny though, is like Nico's been to my house, Like
Kenny comes in later, is like he's been to my house. Yeah,
And Kenny's like, it's you know you shot the jumper
yet to see if they goes in or not, Like
Kenny's got the balance take on it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
My last interaction with Nico was over basketball shoes, and
he was going to give me a pair of Kobe's.
So think about that. He knows Kobe that well, He's
going to give me a pair of Kobe's. And then
I saw him again. He goes, hey, I still got
those Kobe's for you. Yeah, and I had a friend
the other day I go, would you accept those Kobe's?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Now, what are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yes, I'm I'm I still consider Nico a friend in
the same way I did two months ago, exactly. I mean,
I'm not. If I don't agree with a person, you
have to you have to like do something different than
trade an athlete for me to like turn on you, right,
you know. But I get people that are like that
(06:46):
because we ask fans to be passionate.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I get that.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
But I'm not going to turn on a person because
they made a sports decision I disagree.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
So if I trade show Hey off my fantasy baseball team,
You're not gonna suddenly you are dead to me in
that friends, Yeah, okay, I won't do that.
All right, one of our all time favorite guests is
former Dallas Cowboy Travis Frederick. We're gonna do a long
form sit down interview with him tomorrow night on our
YouTube channel. It's gonna start at eight pm. To go
to YouTube dot com slash Ben and Skin be sure
to hit subscribe. We're gonna talk to Travis Fredick for
about an hour. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
And don't forget he's the guy who's gonna make the
decision on who the Cowboys picking the second and third
(00:22):
round this year. Yeah, it's up this totally his decision.
I'm sure we'll talk to him about that. We've got
a gen Z survey coming up next that's very interesting.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Third time. Today we go back to the well of
the NBA on TNT.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, because again a huge episode last night.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm first going to play for you the clip that
was going viral, and then I'm gonna play you added context.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay, here's the clip that was going viral last night.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
In DFW, Charles Barkley addressing MAVs GM Nico Harrison after
yesterday's press conference.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Listen, man, I consider you a friend of mine, Nico Harrison,
I consider you a friend of mine. I wish you
nothing but the best. I thought you did a good
job last year with the MAVs, and obviously whatever happened
this year didn't work out. Man, don't do no more
press conferences. I don't even know what you're doing. I
really don't like. I got sympathy and love for you,
(01:25):
but I have zero idea what you're trying to do.
This war is over, brother, you you go to take
you take in the l I hope you keep your job.
I hope that team get healthy. But man, don't do
any more interviews.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay, so you got that.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
That's pretty real because you could tell Charles is an
anti Nico. He's not fire Nico, He's just an observer
looking at this from afar, going this has got to stop.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, man, I don't see the upside here. Man. I
saw a list that the players vote thing. Did you
see that I did? Yeah? For the Athletics.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The Mavericks were a bottom five team in the league
based on what players perceptions of the organizations are.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Wait, that was in the Athletic The Athletic Anonymous players poll.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yes, small sample size.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
They didn't you know they had like one hundred and
fifty players.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, well, I guess if you look a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
If you look at the teams that are in that
bottom five, you're like, wait, what just like the bulls,
that's a tough It's it's a this is the this
is the biggest one season self inflicted free fall I've
ever witnessed in professional sports. It's I think that's probably accurate.
Because you're in the finals. You're in the finals, and
you're in the finals led by a twenty five year
(02:37):
old global icon.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You're like, man, we made it to the finals.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We're going to be going to the finals pretty much
for the next decade.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
And now this it's that.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
The other thing working against them is if it's like
you're sitting there saying, and Charles just said it, I
hope y'all get healthy. The problem is that some of
your best players have a track record of not staying
healthy and your most important play Okay, only with an ACL.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But Charles said that he considers him a friend in
speaking to him, sincerely, have you all seen the added
context of this?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, no, I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Gonna tell you that I do not know if this
was before or after Charles did the one shot at
the camera to address him.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Okay, I don't know if it was before or after this.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
First you're gonna hear Shaq, who's a little off, I think,
then you're gonna hear Charles.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
His problem is he wants to be liked when he
should just be focusing on doing his job.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I actually don't think Nico cares if he's liked or not.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I don't either. I promise who he didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, so Shack's Shack's well, but Shack's always kind of wrong.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Yeah, I made a decision where it was his decisions.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Okay, now time out.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, what he's saying there and in essence is right,
and the reason why he's doing it somebody wants him
to be liked, or they at least want to serve
the fans. Yeah, they're not putting him out there for
his own health. They're making him go out there and
he's gonna take bullets. Yeah, he's not doing it because
he wants everyone to like him. But he's trying to
be nice to everyone, to try to play nice with
(04:01):
the fans.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
And he said in the press conference, he was like,
what we did last Tuesday. He didn't call it the disaster,
but he kind of said as much. Hey, it went poorly,
and that's why I'm back out here now.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
The importance of Luca. But he just wanted to be nice.
He wanted to give the corporate answer. So my advice
to your brother is just do your job and to
just go up the flow. As long as the owner's
got your back, you should be fine, and.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
The owner should have his back, because it clared the
owners threw him unto the bus. I don't know Nico
that well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, wait, hold on, Well he's not saying they're best friends,
but he was making it clear he wasn't just one
of the other people who's coming after him. I don't know,
but dude, he was out there. That is ownership making
him do that. Yeah, but Charles did.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
This man, I consider you a friend of mine, Nico Harrison, Right.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Dude, there's no one that I don't know that well
that I consider a friend of.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Mine, really, because I do person I feel the same
way about him.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
He's a friend of yours. Yeah, I have his number.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I've had his number since what two thousand, two thousand
and six.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, you guys are friends.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
With Nico.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So I've had his I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, I've had his number since two thousand and six
in my phone, but I don't know him that well.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
But I consider him a friend.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Nico a friend, So yeah, it's like what, I totally
understand what he's coming from. But he's not saying we're
not best friends. I don't know his kids' names, I
don't know his wife, I don't know any of that stuff.
But we're certainly friendly. But there's a million people like that.
I know why what Barkley's saying.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Yeah, And and the other thing too, is like friend
can mean a lot of different things to a lot
of different people. Right, hey man, we have we have
a good relationship as acquaintances. Some people consider that a friend.
It doesn't mean like you know, you're gonna go to
the hospital when their child.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I think I like this show because I rarely ever
agree with anything that they say, but I still love
watching it.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, I love watching it.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Kenny though, is like Nico's been to my house, Like
Kenny comes in later, is like he's been to my house. Yeah,
And Kenny's like, it's you know you shot the jumper
yet to see if they goes in or not, Like
Kenny's got the balance take on it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
My last interaction with Nico was over basketball shoes, and
he was going to give me a pair of Kobe's.
So think about that. He knows Kobe that well, He's
going to give me a pair of Kobe's. And then
I saw him again. He goes, hey, I still got
those Kobe's for you. Yeah, and I had a friend
the other day I go, would you accept those Kobe's?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Now, what are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yes, I'm I'm I still consider Nico a friend in
the same way I did two months ago, exactly. I mean,
I'm not. If I don't agree with a person, you
have to you have to like do something different than
trade an athlete for me to like turn on you, right,
you know. But I get people that are like that
(06:46):
because we ask fans to be passionate.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I get that.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
But I'm not going to turn on a person because
they made a sports decision I disagree.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
So if I trade show Hey off my fantasy baseball team,
You're not gonna suddenly you are dead to me in
that friends, Yeah, okay, I won't do that.
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