“When he starts talking to me, and I make eye contact, I can’t remember anything he said”

By Willie S. Morrissey Last updated May 14, 2022

Inside the NBA Hall of Fame analysts and Charles Barkley Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley are big fans of seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady. In fact, O’Neil and Chuck have crushes on the three-time NFL MVP.

On “Inside the NBA” on TNT, O’Neal and Barkley had a hilarious conversation about Brady’s beauty. Chuck told a story of O’Neil’s dinner with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, saying:

“Shaq came over the other night and he said, ‘Dude, I had dinner with Tom Brady the other night.’ He says, ‘Dude, I have to tell you something.’ I said what?’ He says: “I went out with Tom Brady the other night. You’re right, he’s a handsome man.”

O’Neal confirmed the story and called Brady gorgeous but spelled him “gorgis”. Barkley followed up with his own story of talking to Brady and being mesmerized by the legendary quarterback, adding:

“Shaq, every time I’m near him, when he starts talking to me, and I make eye contact, I can’t remember anything he said after that…He’s a handsome.”

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Tom Brady will be the face of Fox Sports once he decides to retire from football for good. Brady signed a ten-year, $375 million contract with the network that will begin once he retires. It’s a massive case that has raised some eyebrows.

However, O’Neal defended Brady’s deal on “The Big Podcast with Shaq”. He told his co-hosts Nischelle Turner and Spice Adams that the seven-time Super Bowl champion deserved the deal and that his haters should just shut up. O’Neil said:

“When it comes to greatness like this, if you lend anger, you’re a hater. Not everyone can and will get that money. Seven Super Bowls. Clean cut. Handsome. Speak good. He deserves all the money. Anyone who says he doesn’t deserve that money, shut the fuck up.

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Charles Barkley previously revealed that Tom Brady was his man in love

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Charles Barkley’s story about Tom Brady on “Inside the NBA” wasn’t the first time he showed his infatuation with the quarterback. On “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in 2019, he told a similar story after meeting the New England Patriots, saying;

“I was looking at these guys, and all of a sudden I was looking at Gronk, and then Tom Brady is like here. I looked him in the eye and said, ‘Damn, you’re a handsome man. That’s what I thought.”