O’Neal was on air with the rest of TNT’s popular “ Inside the NBA ” crew as part of Thursday night’s halftime report. O’Neal and co-host Charles Barkley had just held a “race to the board,” a recurring bit on the show.

Shaquille O'Neal has fired a warning ahead of his potential exit from TNT with his contract up this summer, as the NBA legend cursed live on air during an 'Inside the NBA' broadcast

Shaq got reckless on TNT Thursday night with some curse words. O’Neal was co-hosting TNT’s NBA coverage Thursday from the Bay Area in Northern California, as the All-Star Game will be held at Chase Center this weekend in San Francisco.

During halftime of a game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Oklahoma City Thunder on TNT, Shaq raced fellow Inside the NBA analyst Charles Barkley to the video board in the back of the set—as is tradition over the years.