Johnson Jr. is the widely respected, six-time Sports Emmy Award-winning host and anchor of Inside the NBA. Beyond the NBA, he is the lead host for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament coverage on CBS/Turner and has covered numerous other major sporting events, including the MLB, NFL, and the Olympics.

After a decades-long run on TNT, the popular NBA-focused program made plenty of joking references to its new home.

For years, ESPN's NBA studio shows couldn't match the alchemy of TNT's 'Inside the NBA.' So they went out and acquired it.

Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Shaquille O'Neal and Ernie Johnson premiered on ESPN ahead of a doubleheader Wednesday with laughs, jabs and basketball analysis.

Now that the analysts at the beloved "Inside the NBA" program are syndicated at ESPN, their schedule will look very different with the new TV deal.

The integration of “Inside the NBA” into the ESPN ecosphere has gone “terrific” thus far with TNT Sports, which will continue to produce the show, notes Tim Corrigan, ESPN’s SVP/Sports Production.

The NBA season kicks off Tuesday, Oct. 21, with a double header of Stephen Curry versus LeBron James and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander versus Kevin Durant. Same highly anticipated matchups with the league’s best stars. Same tradition of hanging a new ...