The 'Inside the NBA' analyst didn't hold back.
Charles Barkley made his first public comments on the NBA pulling the plug on its 40-year relationship with TNT and moving forward with Amazon Prime Video’s offer for NBA broadcasting rights after the 2024-25 season.its intention to enter into a long-term arrangement with Amazon on Wednesday, stating that Warner Bros. Discovery failed to match Amazon’s media rights offer.
On Friday, Barkley pushed back on the financial aspects of the negotiation and claimed that the NBA intended to break up with TNT “from the beginning.”“Clearly the NBA has wanted to break up with us from the beginning. I’m not sure TNT ever had a chance. TNT matched the money, but the league knows Amazon and these tech companies are the only ones willing to pay for the rights when they double in the future. The NBA didn’t want to piss them off.
Charles Barkley has released a statement on TNT losing its NBA rights — and therefore the end of Inside the NBA.Barkley is reportedly generating widespread interest ahead of his TV free agency and could command $20 million-plus offers from the NBA’s new media rights partners: Amazon, ABC/ESPN, and NBC.
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