What started as a routine ESPN broadcast quickly turned into one of the night’s most memorable and heartwarming moments. Interestingly, it had nothing to do with the Indiana Hoosiers and Kentucky Wildcats, the two teams playing. Instead, an on-air interaction between Dick Vitale and Charles Barkley caught everybody’s attention, especially when the latter’s best friend and colleague, Shaquille O’Neal, unexpectedly found himself in the conversation.

In the first half, with the home team shooting free throws, Barkley directly addressed Vitale and his work with the Pediatric Cancer Research Fund, an organization within the V Foundation that raises money for children with cancer.

“Me and Shaq gonna give you each $100,000,” Barkley promised Vitale. “And I don’t care what his fat a– says, we’re

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