Charles Barkley took to Instagram on Friday morning to express the sentiment many basketball fans have felt this week:
“It just sucks.”
Barkley, a longtime analyst on TNT’s popular “Inside the NBA” studio show, made his remarks in a statement posted two days after the league completed an 11-year, $76-billion media rights deal with NBCUniversal, Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN and Amazon beginning with the 2025-26 season.
That deal means TNT, which has broadcast NBA games since 1989, will no longer do so after the upcoming season.
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