Charles Barkley doesn’t plan on sticking around TV much longer. Inside the NBA on TNT has officially come to an end, and the show will is moving to ESPN for the new season, which started

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.

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.

On the second night of the NBA season, Inside the NBA made their highly anticipated debut on ESPN. And the TNT crew picked up right where they left off at their former home with plenty of entertainment and jokes,

NBA games will air on ESPN, ABC, TNT, NBC, NBA TV, and regional sports networks (RSNs). If you don’t have cable, the best way to watch NBA games online is to get a live TV streaming service that carries all those channels.

If anyone had worries that the “Inside the NBA” move to ESPN would change the show at all, they can put that to bed. Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal returned to the airwaves for the beloved NBA studio show on Wednesday night as the Worldwide Leader opened its 2025-26 slate of games.

The swift rise and disappointing decline of Chris Webber as an NBA game analyst at TNT Sports was one of the defining stories of basketball media this century. Now, Webber is back at the network as part of its college basketball coverage.