Inside the NBA is one of the most beloved shows on television.
The sports studio show — featuring Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kenny Smith — has won nineteen Sports Emmy Awards and become the gold standard to which all other shows aspire to.
Inside the NBA has set the bar when it comes to sports studio showGettyHowever, fans feared for the future of the show amid the NBA‘s 11-year, $77 billion agreements with ESPN, NBC and Amazon Prime Video that left TNT Sports very much on the outside looking in.
Thankfully, Warner Bros. Discovery — TNT’s parent company — and Disney reached an agreement to license the basketball show to Disney for broadcast on ESPN and ABC.
Inside The NBA will air on ESPN and ABC from next season, but the future of Barkley in particular has received a spanner in the works.
As ESPN, NBC and Amazon were looking to buy out the NBA broadcast rights from TNT, ‘Sir Charles’ took meetings with other networks to decide his TV fate.
Despite receiving an offer from NBC to work with the network and having a meeting with Amazon scheduled, Barkley has officially announced that he will continue his role at Turner Sports.
“I want to talk about my future because there’s been a lot of stuff going about my future and I want to make everything perfectly clear,” Barkley said while appearing on Ernie Johnson’s Steam Room podcast.
Barkley revealed he’s staying at Turner Sports no matter whatX@TheDunkCentral Shaq and Charles have become fan favorites on Inside the NBAGetty“I’m informing NBC that I will not accept their offer. I’m going to cancel future meetings with Amazon … My heart is always and will be at Turner Sports.”
“I’m hoping that this thing comes together and I can stay with TNT and ESPN but as I’ve said, it’s all going to be dictated on my workload. I’m not going to work more as I get older. I’m going to sit down with ESPN and TNT more because I just need to know if I’m going to continue working, how much I’m going to work.”
The TNT behemoth, which debuted in 1989 as a simple analysis program, has evolved down the years to become an entertainment extravaganza.
It’s a mix of highlights, skits, interviews and hijinks, notable for its verbal sparring sessions between Shaq and Sir Charles.
The analysts, who regularly weigh in on topical — and often controversial — issues, are also unafraid to roast active players, from Shaqtin’ a Fool Hall of Famer JaVale McGee to Anthony ‘Street Clothes’ Davis.
Barkley joined the Inside the NBA crew in 2000, and signed a 10-year deal with TNT in 2022 that pays him “upward of $100 million.”
Barkley has pretty consistently reiterated his plans to wind down his TV work as he gets older, with the latest announcement casting serious doubts over not only his own future, but the future of ‘Inside the NBA’ as fans know it.
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