Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Shaquille O'Neal and Ernie Johnson premiered on ESPN ahead of a doubleheader Wednesday with laughs, jabs and basketball analysis.

For years, ESPN's NBA studio shows couldn't match the alchemy of TNT's 'Inside the NBA.' So they went out and acquired it.

For the first time since 1989, the NBA will not be broadcast on TNT. And while that fact has been clear for some time now, Charles Barkley is still mad about it. The agreement, while helpful in partially justifying Barkley and Co.’s massive deals with ...

The NBA returned to NBC's airwaves for the first time in 23 years on Tuesday night and made an immediate impression on basketball fans, who have

The NBA’s beloved studio crew is still on TV—it’s just shifting gears. ESPN will be licensed Inside the NBA from TNT in a groundbreaking agreement, and fans will be able to see Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley, Ernie Johnson, and Kenny Smith’s ...

On Saturday, the final remnants of TNT”s stake in the previous NBA media rights deal, its partnership with NBA TV, came to a close with the broadcast of the 2025 Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony. But before signing off for a final time ...

The NBA has officially taken over control of NBA TV from TNT Sports, according to Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal. The league will now handle all programming, with original content set to launch on Oct. 13. For now, the network will feature a mix of ...

Charles Barkley heard from the co-workers who don't appear on screen during TNT's "Inside the NBA" as its future was in flux over the past year ‒ about how they were worried about paying their mortgage or for their children's education if they were to ...

Charles Barkley has never minced words, and in his latest interview, he took some direct shots at both TNT and the NBA. Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Barkley said that TNT has not been communicative about how it will approach ...

NBA season is fast approaching, but one of the sport’s most beloved television programs is still in the dark about its new arrangements. After TNT lost NBA rights in the latest round of media negotiations last year, the network licensed the popular ...

ESPN and TNT retained the rights to show NBA games for the next nine years in a new deal announced Monday. The deal takes effect starting with the 2016-17 season and increases ESPN's television, digital, highlights, data, audio and international NBA rights.