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Say what you want to about former NBA star and brewer of controversy, but Charles Barkley’s making Morehouse College a little happier these days. Barkley recently announced he will give $1 million to the HBCU.
The Hall of Famer is in a very generous mood as the Morehouse donation will coincide with two other $1 million gifts to The Wounded Warrior Project and Auburn University, which is actually Barkley’s alma mater.
Barkley, who just renewed his contract as a studio analyst for TNT’s Inside the NBA for an additional 8 to ten years, delivered the news during a conference call for the American Century Championship’s celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, NV, reports The Grio.
“I just got a new contract, and my goal is always to give a million dollars a year away to charity,” Barkley said during the call.
Barkley, 52, had been talking about retiring from TV when his TNT contract ran out in 2016, but it seems his new contract changed his mind.
The entire Inside the NBA studio crew (Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson) landed multi-year extensions. “The group is widely regarded as the best sports studio show in the business, with the controversial Barkley at the center,” reports The New York Post.
