Jeopardy!, in the immortal words of Zoolander's Mugatu, is "so hot right now." Professional sports gambler James Holzhauer has taken the country by storm and given Alex Trebeck and Co. their best-ever ratings during a dominant winning streak. But as we found out on Thursday night, professional sports players aren't quite as skilled at the trivia game.
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Charles Barkley and the NBA on TNT crew played an abbreviated version of the game show following the Spurs-Nuggets contest, and, well, it went exactly as you'd imagine. There were bad answers, perplexing answers, and a whole lot of laughs from Chuck, Shaq, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson, who plays the role of Trebeck flawlessly. Here's a sampling that includes Smith getting a clue wrong and then purposely telling Shaq the wrong answer so he'd get it wrong too:
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Even Holzhauer and Ken Jennings would have to appreciate that savvy strategy. And here's another clip in which Barkley correctly gets a clue about Over-eaters Anonymous (Holzhauer got a similar clue correct earlier in the week), much to the delight of Ernie:
Give me this over Game of Thrones any day. Let's hope this becomes a nightly feature.
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