'If I was going to trade somebody that I had respect for and appreciate, I would at least give them a heads up.'
will live on despite TNT being on the verge of losing NBA rights for the foreseeable future. The news broke last week that ESPN had worked out a deal to acquire the hit NBA show for its broadcasts beginning with the 2025-26 season. And Charles Barkley is not pleased with how everything went down.show with Kate Constable and Gabe Ramirez, Barkley expressed his view that employees of Turner have been treated worse and worse with each subsequent merger.
). “We have to hear it through the media. And even this thing with ABC/ESPN, I heard about it on the internet. Scott Van Pelt, Brian Windhorst, Elle Duncan, Bob Myers, all friends of mine who I really like a lot. They texted me welcoming me to the ESPN family. I’m like, what happened? TNT didn’t even have the courtesy.
"Basically we got traded. If I was going to trade somebody that I had respect for and appreciate, I would at least give them a heads up. I wouldn’t let them hear about it from other people or the internet." His outrage is understandable. But it also lines up that he heard from outside sources before TNT. The news that ESPN was acquiring the showBarkley has been with Turner for over 20 years and has been consistently complimentary about how he's been treated there on the whole.
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