Charles Barkley dozes off, misspells 'disingenuous,' and loses $1,000 to Shaq

We've all been tempted to fall asleep on the job at one time or another, and no doubt plenty of us have actually powered down for a quick, covert nap.

But most of us aren't on television. Know who is? Charles Barkley.

Thursday's games clearly weren't stimulating enough for the Inside the NBA broadcaster.

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The rest of the gang gave him plenty of grief afterward, anointing Barkley's snooze "Chuckolepsy" and challenging the clearly sleep-deprived Barkley to spell "disingenuous" for $1,000.

"D-I-S-G-E-N-O-U-S," Barkley tried.

In all fairness, that's not the easiest word in the world, but still, let's hope they don't play H-O-R-S-E during commercial breaks.

Watch the whole exchange over at NBA.com.

And a note to Jay Pharoah and Kenan Thompson at Saturday Night Live: Looks like you've got this weekend's skit ready to go. --Sarah Eberspacher