Charles Barkley mentioned on Friday that subsequent season will likely be his final on TV, it doesn’t matter what occurs with the NBA’s media offers.
The Corridor of Fame participant has spent the final 24 years working as an extremely in style studio analyst for TNT, which may lose the rights to broadcast NBA video games after subsequent season. However regardless of the place the video games find yourself, Barkley says he received’t be on the printed.
“There’s been lots of noise round our community the previous couple of months and I simply need to say I’ve talked to all the opposite networks, however I ain’t going nowhere apart from TNT,” Barkley mentioned whereas engaged on NBA TV’s NBA finals postgame present.
The NBA’s present offers with ABC-ESPN and Turner Sports activities expire after subsequent season and the league has been speaking with NBC, ESPN and Amazon, amongst different networks and platforms, about what comes subsequent. Any rights deal is estimated to be price round $76bn for the NBA over a decade. The NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, mentioned final week he hopes new long-term offers will likely be accomplished shortly.
Barkley and broadcast teammates Ernie Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith have mentioned their unsure future on their in style Contained in the NBA studio present. Barkley would seemingly draw curiosity from any community televising NBA, however the 61-year-old has determined that 25 years will likely be sufficient.
“I hope the NBA stays with TNT, however for me personally, I wished you guys to listen to it from me … I wished to inform my NBA TV and TNT household that I’m not going to a different community, however I’m going to cross the baton to both Jamal Crawford or Vince Carter otherwise you Steve [Smith],” Barkley mentioned on Friday. “However subsequent 12 months, I’m going to only retire after 25 years, and I simply wished to say thanks. And I wished y’all to listen to it from me first.”
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