Kenny Smith gets family reality TV show: Report

Putting yourself up to ridicule by pranksters Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley on TNT's Inside the NBA set is always fun and games — but bringing your whole family out, warts and all, on national television ... well, that might be another thing.

That's what former NBA star and current NBA analyst Kenny Smith is planning after it was reported that TBS green-lighted "The Smiths," a reality show in which Smith, his lovely actress/model wife, Gwendolyn Osborne-Smith (she's on "The Price Is Right"), and their blended family of five children ages 2 to 20 will appear in at least six episodes.

The series will be shot in Los Angeles and Atlanta and feature "conflicting parenting styles," "whirlwind schedules" and an "absolute madhouse"lifestyle  - "albeit a loving one," according to the show's press release.

The news release went on: "Kenny has just about everything he needs to be considered the Coolest Dad on Earth — everything that is except the ability to impress his own kids."

Sounds wacky. Throw in a loud sweater and you have a real-life version of the Huxtables. So maybe they should bring in Shaq and Sir Charles to give it it a little Bundy family edge.

"The Smiths'' is set to launch in the spring of 2015.

Charles Barkley arrives outside studio on high horse

Charles Barkley, who was recently voted the "favorite announcer" in a player's poll conducted by Sports Illustrated, celebrated winning the showdown by arriving outside TNT's "Inside the NBA" studio the only way they do it in Oklahoma— by horseback.

Even though Barkley is technically a studio analyst— and not an announcer— he rode in on his high horse and black hat to announce his arrival as the new sheriff in town.

While head-shaking fans outside the arena— before last night's Oklahoma City Thunder-San Antonio Spurs game— watched the greenhorn try to keep from falling off Gunner the horse, you can hear one of Barkley's co-hosts from the show, Ernie Johnson, urging the stallion to "just take off."

All that was missing from the scene was Clint Eastwood's squint and a tumble weed.

In the 124 player poll, Barkley beat out some of his contemporaries like Jeff Van Gundy, Steve Kerr, Reggie Miller and even the legendary Marv Albert.  Most satisfying to Barkley was probably besting his co-host and studio nemesis Shaquille O'Neal.  Sometimes there just ain't enough room in that there set for the both of them.

At least in the old west they had a hat big enough for Barkley's head and ego— the ten-gallon variety.

After seeing Barkley being guided around by like a four-year old getting a pony ride,  I think the Round Mound of Rebound should stick to studios not stables.

Shaq uses disturbing 'Flashdance' in training routine

While training for his "Shirt Off" competition with Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal turned back the clock to 1983 and incorporated a famous scene from the movie "Flashdance" into his training routine.

The TNT basketball analyst released a video of himself being squirted down with a hose in a driveway while he sings the "Maniac" song from the movie.

Shaq tearing off his wife-beater and running in place is a little— no make that a lot— less appealing than the water soaked dance that Jennifer Beals made famous in the movie about a female welder who spends her nights dancing on stage in a steel mill city club.

Shaq and his co-host Barkley will unveil their bodies during Tuesday night's broadcast of "Inside the NBA" to show who is in better shape.  From the looks of this "Flashdance" parody and other videos of Shaq, the former NBA center looks pretty hard— at least compared to Barkley.

O'Neal's trainer Nikki Alexander has been working her student through a variety of workouts and was shown doing backflips off his stomach last week before turning on the hose and bringing back memories of torn sweatshirts over t-shirts, big hair and leg-warmers.

I'll never be able to listen to the song "What a Feeling" the same way ever again.