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

Charles Barkley made his ESPN debut on Inside the NBA, surprising fans with praise for the network after years of criticism. Kenny Smith playfully roasted Barkley's humble statement, asking if he needed a napkin for his "kissing up.

Ernie Johnson barely could get the words out. The run of “Inside the NBA” on TNT came to an end Saturday night after nearly four decades as a fixture of the league. The show will move to ESPN and ABC next season — and keep Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal ...

TNT Sports is walking away from NBA TV, as the Warner Bros. Discovery cable unit has elected to close out its oversight of the league-owned network this fall. Talks that would have seen TNT retain its oversight of NBA TV operations, a role it had held down ...

Charles Barkley agreed to work for at least two more years with ESPN and TNT, but still doesn’t know what he’s going to be doing. “We taped a pilot about a month ago, and it was the stupidest s**t I’ve ever seen in my life.” 😅 – Charles ...

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 ...

TNT was home to the NBA for 36 seasons—the longest-running sports program in the network’s history—and it ended exactly the way fans would’ve wanted: with the iconic “Inside the NBA” crew of Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, and ...

There has been a weird subplot to the season-long goodbye to the NBA on TNT in that most of the attention to its swan song has been about the one element of its presentation that isn’t going anywhere. The same can’t be said for the overall presentation ...