NEW YORK – The opening regular season broadcast of TNT’s Inside the NBA doesn’t tip off until Tuesday night, but the show’s four personalities seemed to be in midseason form at a media day in Manhattan on Monday.

The panel of host Ernie Johnson and analysts Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal were already giving each other grief before they even sat down to talk about the upcoming season.

“You ate good this summer,” Barkley remarked as O’Neal took his seat in from of the conference room at Time Warner Center, with the Big Aristotle quickly returning a query about whether Barkley still had his Weight Watchers contract.

As For The Win detailed last December, the chemistry between the personalities is unlike any other studio show in sports. It’s evident in the room, as the quartet immediately starts trading barbs as soon as the others start making projections. Before each member of the cast went into a separate roundtable interview – you can read more from Charles Barkley’s here – they went back and forth in front of the room for nearly 20 minutes that served as a great reminder just how much fun it is to have the show back on the air.

Here are the best one-liners from that panel:

Inside the NBA returns Tuesday night on TNT.