Inside the NBA 'is SAVED as ESPN agrees to license Charles Barkley & Co's studio show' after TNT lost rights

It appears Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal volition beryllium coming backmost adjacent season, lone connected a antithetic network.

Inside the NBA, TNT’s fashionable workplace show, volition beryllium licensed to ESPN and ABC starting adjacent season, erstwhile genitor institution Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) was acceptable to suffer league broadcast rights, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Former league stars Barkley, O’Neal, Kenny Smith arsenic good arsenic big Ernie Johnson’s aboriginal had been uncertain, but present the quartet appears to beryllium returning to the league for the foreseeable future.

According to the Journal, WBD besides agreed to a woody with the NBA to settee its breach of declaration suit successful bid for the media institution to proceed to bash business with the league.

This colony volition let WBD to make caller shows with NBA contented successful the United States and abroad. Additionally, the colony volition springiness the institution rights to a 'significant magnitude of NBA contented domestically and abroad,' per the Journal.

This volition besides let WBD to proceed to tally the NBA's integer operations, including NBA TV, for the adjacent respective years.

In speech for the rights to 'Inside the NBA', ESPN reportedly agreed to sublicense Big 12 assemblage shot and hoops games to WBD - which tin beryllium aired connected TNT and connected the company's MAX streaming service.

It's not wide if 'Inside' would regenerate ESPN's existent NBA workplace program, 'NBA Countdown'.

Fans rejoiced astatine the quality - with galore acrophobic that the show, which has won 19 Sports Emmy Awards, would spell disconnected the aerial erstwhile WBD's rights woody with the NBA expired astatine the extremity of this season. 

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