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Since 1989, “Inside the NBA” has been a constant in a frequently changing NBA broadcast landscape.
The league has gone from the NBA Finals airing on CBS when “Inside the NBA” debuted, to NBC throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, to ESPN and ABC over the last two decades. During that time, former players Kenny Smith (1998), Charles Barkley (2000) and Shaquille O’Neal (2011) joined Ernie Johnson on his postgame set to create appointment television for many basketball fans.
But reality is setting in that the 2024-25 season likely will be the final one for “Inside the NBA” in its current form after the league on Wednesday announced new TV rights deals with ESPN, NBC and Amazon Prime Video, rejecting TNT Sports’ right to match.
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