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It has been a whirlwind of a last few weeks for the NBA as it pertains to their television rights, as they first announced they would be moving on from TNT in favor of a new deal with Amazon and NBC and have now found themselves as the subject of a lawsuit from Warner Bros. […]

Newly signed Philadelphia 76ers forward Paul George has hosted a podcast for a while now, but even he knows covering the NBA Finals on TV is a different ball game altogether. In a recent interview with Charles Barkley, a longtime member of TNT’s Inside the NBA, George admits talking about the NBA on television gives […]

Going into the 2024-2025 NBA season, it looks to be the last one with TNT having exclusive coverage of the NBA. Amazon won the rights after TNT refused to match the offer, putting the future of the Inside the NBA crew in jeopardy. However, Charles Barkley reaffirmed his commitment to the network, and it was […]

Team USA basketball has looked utterly dominant so far at the 2024 Paris Olympics, going a perfect 3-0 in the preliminary rounds. The Americans beat South Sudan, Serbia, and Puerto Rico all handily and now head into the quarterfinals where they will face Brazil. It’s no secret that Steve Kerr’s squad is a clear-cut favorite […]

After 35 long years as one of the its broadcast partners, TNT network has lost the media rights to the NBA. They were unable to match the offer presented by Amazon, according to the league itself, and as a result, the NBA will be leaving TNT after their contract expires at the conclusion of the […]

There’s no question that Team USA has the deepest pool of NBA players when it comes to basketball. As a result, in every FIBA tournament, Team USA is always dubbed as the heavy favorite to win it all. In fact, throughout the years, several legends have answered the call of the national team. While the […]

In Team USA’s 110-84 win over Serbia in the 2024 Paris Olympics, Jayson Tatum was notably absent from the floor. Postgame, head coach Steve Kerr admitted he messed up not playing Tatum. “Jayson will play,” he said, per ESPN’s Brian Windhorst. “I’m not going to answer your next question, which is if he plays, who […]

Now that the NBA is moving forward with its massive media rights deal with Amazon Prime Video instead of Warner Bros. Discovery, basketball coverage is expected to change significantly. It is officially the end of an era. Or is it? TNT Sports is not going down without a fight, as it fires back at Commissioner […]

It was recently revealed that TNT is expected to lose its NBA media rights deal after the league went in a different direction. TNT’s popular show, Inside the NBA, will be especially missed by fans. Charles Barkley, an NBA Hall of Famer and one of the stars of the show, recently addressed the TNT news […]

TNT is not giving up. The company announced that they matched Amazon’s $1.8 billion offer to continue covering the NBA while keeping the “Inside the NBA” show, which features Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson, running moving forward. “We’re proud of how we delivered for basketball fans by providing best-in-class coverage throughout […]

Can the Philadelphia Eagles recover from their disappointing 2023 season? While their regular-season record seems to show a relatively successful season, the postseason results say otherwise. Their positive record masks the severe underperformance of a team fresh off of a Super Bowl run. As a result, they were bounced out of the first round by […]

While superstar point guard Stephen Curry trains for the Olympics with Team USA in Las Vegas, the Golden State Warriors brass back in San Francisco is currently looking for ways to maximize the final years of the career of their franchise’s best ever player. The Warriors are coming off of two straight relatively disappointing seasons […]

Charles Barkley is a Basketball Hall of Famer, having won an NBA MVP, making 11 All-Star Game appearances, and led the NBA in rebounds. Nowadays Barkley continues to make his mark in basketball as an analyst, but Barkley recently announced he will be retiring from TV work after the 2024-25 NBA season. Given Barkley’s popularity, […]

Last week, Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and the Boston Celtics was somewhat overshadowed by a bizarrely timed postgame announcement from NBA TV analyst Charles Barkley, who took the station’s postgame show to announce that he would be stepping away from television at the conclusion of next year’s 2024-25 season. […]

The Dallas Mavericks came into Game 4 of the NBA Finals facing what has historically been an insurmountable 3-0 series deficit, and from the jump on Friday night, it was clear that Dallas was playing with a far greater sense of urgency than their Eastern Conference counterpart was. In a must-win situation, the Dallas Mavericks […]

The NBA is set to lose one of its most entertaining on-screen personalities, with Charles Barkley leaving the small screen at the conclusion of the 2024-25 season. With ABC having the broadcast rights for the 2024 NBA Finals, Barkley announced that next year will be his final year as a full-time presence on television on […]

Basketball legend Charles Barkley ribbed hockey legend and NHL on TNT analyst Wayne Gretzky in the presence of top draft prospects on hand for Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers. Top NHL Draft prospects Macklin Celebrini, Cayden Lindstrom, Zeev Buium, and Artyom Levshunov appeared at the […]

Charles Barkley isn’t the first person who comes to mind for Stanley Cup coverage. Nevertheless, the former NBA player-turned-broadcaster made an unexpected appearance during Monday’s Game 2 between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers. Barkley joined P.K. Subban, Steve Levy, and Mark Messier during one of ABC’s intermission breaks to discuss the game. While […]

Basketball icon Charles Barkley has expressed admiration for Dan Hurley, the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and the NBA Finals. However, he’s not particularly pleased with ESPN’s recent coverage of these subjects. During his appearance on Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich, Charles Barkley criticized ESPN for dedicating a considerable amount of their NBA Finals coverage to […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves are taking on the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals on Thursday night, needing a win to avoid their season coming to an end. TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley likes the Timberwolves’ chances in Game 5: “I’ll be shocked if the Wolves don’t win tonight… I expect them […]

The ‘Inside the NBA’ crew on TNT has been a staple of NBA gamedays since its introduction way back in 1989. Recently, the tea leaves have revealed that there is a real chance the popular show could go the way of the dinosaur next season, if the league shifts to new outlets like Disney Plus […]

Charles Barkley has candidly expressed his sentiments regarding TNT Sports potentially losing NBA rights to NBC, especially concerning the potential conclusion of Inside The NBA. In an interview with Phoenix, Arizona’s NBC affiliate 12News, he made his position even more clear. “I’m gonna enjoy – it’s not even retirement. I got fired. I didn’t retire. […]

Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley have had several entertaining moments on TNT’s Inside the NBA. The 2024 NBA Playoffs are causing the two hosts to have intense conversations, including a key one after the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Game 3 loss to the Dallas Mavericks. Shaq recalled some of his career playoff sweeps and clapped back at […]

Historically, a 3-0 series lead in the postseason has been nothing more than a prelude to an eventual series win. Consider that in the long history of the NBA Playoffs, all 154 teams that have gone up 3-0 in a best-of-seven series have gone on to finish off the job. Therefore, unless you believe that […]

Just a little over a week removed from knocking the defending NBA champions out of the postseason in stunning fashion on the road, the Minnesota Timberwolves now find themselves in a position that no team in NBA history has ever managed to successfully climb their way out of — down 0-3 in a seven game […]

Warner Bros. Discovery lost the massive bidding war in the NBA’s next television rights deal, ceding the way to NBC and Amazon as the league’s broadcast partner alongside Disney. It’s not the loss of TNT’s in-game NBA coverage and presentation that has fans across the globe wringing their hands in frustration, though. With TNT no […]

Netflix recently released a roast of NFL legend Tom Brady, and it got a lot of traction. A ton of people have streamed the roast since it came out, and everyone in the sports world was talking about it after it came out. After seeing Brady get roasted, it got people thinking, who will the […]

There has been a lot of behind-the-scenes drama regarding TNT and Inside the NBA potentially breaking up, and Charles Barkley did not hold back on his bosses during an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show. “We’re just sitting back on these people to figure out what they’re gonna do,” Charles Barkley said on the Dan […]

A big part of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ success throughout the regular season and NBA Playoffs was their Defensive Player of the Year. Rudy Gobert made it difficult for opponents to get to the rim which forced them to spread out their offense. This gave players like Jaden McDaniels, Anthony Edwards, and Karl-Anthony Towns an easier […]

Finally, the Conference Finals matchups are set! Out in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics will have to deal with the Indiana Pacers in their search for an 18th banner. In the wild Western Conference, it will be the Dallas Mavericks on the hunt against the Minnesota Timberwolves. There aren’t too many predictions yet, but […]

With media rights negotiations on the horizon, TNT could very well be losing the NBA after 40 years to NBCUniversal. NBCUniversal, who incidentally lost their NBA rights to ABC/ESPN and Turner who outbid them, seems to be in the driver’s seat to bring the NBA back to 30 Rock. Many NBA fans are nervous that […]

The Boston Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-98 in Game 5 of their NBA Playoffs series Wednesday night, winning the Eastern Conference semifinals 4 games to 1 and advancing to the Eastern Conference finals. Despite the advancement, TNT NBA commentator Charles Barkley isn’t thrilled with how the Celtics are playing: "They're the worst offense I've […]

The Golden State Warriors had a disappointing season, by their standards, and Charles Barkley made sure to remind Draymond Green of that fact on Wednesday night. With Chicago Bulls guard Alex Caruso appearing on TNT alongside the crew, talk turned to Caruso’s teammate DeMar Derozan. Once Caruso said he could have won the Clutch Player […]

The defending champions have woken up. Jamal Murray unveiled that it was time for the Denver Nuggets to turn the jets on. Nikola Jokic and the rest of the squad torched the Minnesota Timberwolves to even up their NBA Playoffs series at two games apiece. But, a lot of the credit had to go to […]

On Wednesday evening, Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks went up two games to zero in their first round playoff series vs the Indiana Pacers with a thrilling win at Madison Square Garden. Brunson actually left this game in the first half with a sore foot and was forced to miss the entirety of […]

The injury bug kept biting the New York Knicks but they pulled off the win. Coach Tom Thibodeau had to make a lot of in-game adjustments after Jalen Brunson and OG Anunoby went down. Now, they are up two games to nothing against the Indiana Pacers led by Tyrese Haliburton. It was not the prettiest […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves have taken the NBA world by storm this postseason. The franchise’s first-ever postseason series sweep over the Phoenix Suns first drew attention to the Wolves’ stifling defense. Now, the Timberwolves have the reigning champion Denver Nuggets on the ropes after stealing not one, but two games on the road to begin the […]

Father Time is undefeated. For the longest time, it felt like LeBron James had the closest chance of staving off time the inevitable. Over the last few years, though… the Los Angeles Lakers star’s play has been slowly but surely declining in the last few years. He’s still pretty good, but if we’re being honest… […]

The NBA prides itself on being the best men’s professional basketball league in the world, and that certainly has some bearing as the majority of the top foreign players have goals of playing in the league. From the late Drazen Petrovic to Dirk Nowitzki to Pau Gasol to Tony Parker, the NBA has seen quite […]