ESPN’s chief of content, Burke Magnus, said Tuesday he would be interested in bringing Barkley to the network if he were available. Asked at a Front Office Sports conference in New York if he could see a world with Barkley at ESPN, Magnus said he could.

Charles Barkley thought a trade sending him to the Lakers had been finalized, and he decided to do some premature celebrating.

Burke Magnus, ESPN’s president of content, asked at Front Office Sports conference if he could see a world with Charles Barkley at ESPN Magnus: “Yeah. That would be a