In a new twist, the popular duo of former NBA stars Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley are temporarily leaving their comfort zones at TNT as they bring their acts together to the college game. Both are set to cover the March Madness on CBS. Smith and Barkley together with Ernie Johnson are the "Love Them, Hate Them" anchors of the highly rated TNT talk show, “Inside the NBA”. Smith says he is excited with the CBS job and believes that there is no big adjustment for him and Barkley considering it is still basketball that they are going to analyze, according to the Lost Lettermen.
“The great thing about it is that it’s still basketball. We don’t have to change our thought process. I think fans will be interested if we have the same viewpoints as we do with NBA basketball; if we analyze college the same way we analyze the NBA. And that’s our job, to bring that to it. Ernie will be part of the early rounds for the first two weeks. So he’ll be part of that process as well and we’ll have a little bit more of a comfort zone doing it that way. But we’re excited about it more than anything. This is an opportunity to talk about the kids we would’ve been watching anyway. When the tournament was on we would’ve been out from 12 to 12, our TV would’ve been locked in on these networks. So this will be a fun opportunity.”
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