Why The NBA Abandoned It’s #1 TV Show

NBA fans just received some Devastating news…
After thirty long years of being on the air, Inside the NBA is being canceled because the Turner network lost the rights to air NBA coverage to Amazon.
But why would the NBA cancel their most popular show?
And is there any hope left that the “Inside Crew” may survive the drastic ownership change?
Or will Charles Barkley put the kibosh in all of it
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[@HenryHoops]

I love you INSIDE The NBA ❤

[@bigbangbasketball]

Best sports show ever created

[@stephaniebrookings2290]

Corridor crew moment!!!

[@dreamcage1801]

Cable is declining and too expensive these days

[@AwakeNotWokeBruh]

Bezos is the Devil in Prada hitting on you at the bar. Smh.

[@bigbangbasketball]

Bro gonna own everything in a couple of years

[@johnnydepp4866]

CEO entrepreneur

[@mikaelandersen-svensson8638]

These four need a podcast

[@soSkikik]

Jesus Christ this is sad

[@hytone6924]

How

[@dan8910100]

Why

[@logosfocus]

less of the blasphemy guy

[@snarkmark2806]

Sad is people that have no home or no food. This is literally inconsequential to the world at large.

[@soSkikik]

@@snarkmark2806 you know what's really sad. People who lecture other people online on what they think is sad and what isn't think shouldn't be called sad because they have the right to define what words mean. Those people are fucking sad.

[@redhorsepapi]

"Ain't no party like a Diddy party" - Lebron James

[@bigbangbasketball]

Lol and thats yall king

[@Xenovation3334]

@@bigbangbasketballthat video was ai sorry to disappoint

[@DashingDragon]

@@bigbangbasketballName a GOAT in any sport that’s not controversial lmao. Separate the art from the person.

[@johnjohnson8364]

​@@Xenovation3334😂.... GOOGLE SAVANA JAMES FEDERAL P.E.D INVESTIGATION 😢

[@johnjohnson8364]

​@@DashingDragon😂.... GOOGLE SAVANA JAMES FEDERAL P.E.D

[@Hfidon]

I really hope it changes, they are the greatest NBA breakdown show.

[@joshuamarilopez8128]

Watch Dan Patrick's recent interview with Charles. You weren't able to include that.

[@derek8130]

I cant do another season with bob Myers guy sucks

[@ThorstenKBlock]

Disgusting, filthy Millionaires are gambling about the rights to show the NBA? Screw it! Why not just have the show without the NBA footage - Just the guys talking... They are sometimes more interesting and thrilling than any NBA game nowadays. Something like open court on TNT. SometimesNBA games are so lame (due to the new rules), it doesn't even matter if they show a game or not. But people want to see THE GUYS talking Basketball! Guaranteed success even without the NBA footage.

[@valleyshrew]

The hosts are paid $20m a year to joke around and do very little, it's absurd and the video leaves that out. There are youtubers doing a better job getting paid peanuts compared to them. Most overpaid people in the history of television! Remember when people were outraged about the Friends cast getting $18m/year each? They got 30m people watching! Inside the NBA got 1m most of the time, and the vast majority of people were tuning in for the game, not the hosts.

[@raymondmaglonzo5346]

😢😢😢😢

[@dayalcober89]

Decca Records rejected the Beatles, saying that "they felt guitar groups are on the way out" and "the Beatles have no future in show business." The Portland Trailblazers did not draft MJ & instead drafted a player who later became one of the worst busts in the history of the NBA. Albert Einstein was turned down by many colleges and universities for a teaching position, one of which even suggested that Einstein should consider shifting to another field and selling insurance. How many useful idiots have we hired for profit margins, only to leave the very best outside, picking cookie crumbs?

[@PureFact]

Portland had Clyde and no one expected MJ to be the GOAT. Bowie was great in college and high school, but plagued with injuries in the NBA. That man wasn't a bust

[@justincase43]

shaq's persona is a bully and his insights aren't insightful at all, i love the kenny smith/charles barkley duo

[@sixsimpson2480]

Terrible take, Shaq is the most qualified champion on set, G14 classification.

[@martinbuhrer3893]

That is true, but a lot of it is actually just what you said - a TV persona. Him being there still makes it entertaining as hell to watch.

[@RaffyMaBoi]

@sixsimpson2480 his only comeback is "I got four rings"

[@sixsimpson2480]

@@RaffyMaBoi qualified comeback. Without Shaq the show is not the same. For all intense and purposes they only talk about the game 10% of the show lol

[@ryangreen2493]

​@@sixsimpson2480you have to be a shaq fan to believe this. The show was doing fine without Shaq. If your only argument when someone is cooking you, is to scream. "I HAVE FOUR RINGS CHUCK" then your argument sucks. He was on the best team for 3 years and then got carried by a baby dwade 06. Chucks takes on basketball are much better than Shaqs and what show are you watching that they only talk about basketball 10 percent of the tine...

[@Ingeborga_Dapkunaite]

Naaah... No Inside The NBA = no NBA. I can't care less really. You can find a lot of comments "unfortunately this show is interrupted by NBA sometimes" under their videos

[@leq6992]

Shaq absolutely did not turn the show into "Must See TV". If anything he dumbed it way down while at the same time providing some comic relief, but only as Chuck's (completely unwitting) punching bag. Ernie and Chuck have just been too good to let Shaq's narcissism and stupidity seriously impact the show.

[@jamesy8581]

Amazon outright buying Inside actually has some insane value proposition. Whenever ESPN is broadcasting games, I turn them off at half time because their halftime coverage is so bad. SAS and Perk are terrible analysts. The Inside guys are experts and make the NBA fun.

[@bigbangbasketball]

Jeff Bezos is coming after our souls next

[@JoaoFerreira-dy3hf]

One thing very common is to make a deal with the original buyers so they can air some games of that package and they don't need to pay so much.

[@Nuthing_but_the_Truth]

NBA viewership is down and has been going down. I dont know how all these companies are paying so much for the rights. Cable is also down. I love Inside the NBA, but i dont understand how TNT can be profitable enough to pay the price of the rights.

[@markcarey67]

TV viewership, yeah. The NBA has a much younger fanbase than football or baseball and the kids stream stuff they don't watch TV.

[@MrRetroswag]

​@@markcarey67and NBA is the biggest global sport other than soccer cable companies dont benefit from all the people watching in other countries

[@Ricktony14]

To go along with these massive contracts and how the ownership revenue in the very near future will have to accommodate for more than one if any supermax contract. I agree with Barkley in saying these weird kids make too much money

[@rubbishrabble]

​@@markcarey67The median MLB age dropped from 51 to 45. MLB makes most from ballparks, but NBA playoffs new deal is mostly Disney's ABC or Comcast's NBC. The average age of traditional pay TV subscribers is 49 says Marketing Charts. New York Times has a story question. Was this $100 billion deal the worst merger ever? Essentially the Turner NBA brand has no money after the new parent company decided to sink into seemingly endless debt.

[@felipeb.9321]

pretty much every fan outside the US watches on ESPN through cable, or NBA league pass these days. i've been a Celtics fan since 1980, first through games recorded on VHS and mailed by a mate from NYC to London, UK. then through ESPN on cable, and for the past decade on league pass. streaming help expand access to NBA games massively, so much so there are more non-US fans, than the entire US market, and we don't have to wait until a game ends because ABC or whoever has dibs on the game; the international league pass has no blackout restrictions.

[@Wylde_Bil]

my wife who isn't a sports person. ask if she sees me watching basketball if its a tnt game, if I say yes she wants me to let her know when the pre game, halftime and post game comes on so she can watch ernie and the guys.

[@RaffyMaBoi]

Lol, yeah, I remember watching more inside the NBA clips on YT than actual game clips

[@PrimoPete]

This is fuckin painful. I really hope TNT releases all the previous episodes somewhere... MAYBE IN A STREAMING PLATFORM. #ChuckFTW

[@Snowflake.....]

I want one place to go to watch all nba games all of them past present and future 100% basketball no bs just games 24/7

[@DonD-rb1mr]

Glad for NBC .. Sad 😔 for TNT inside the NBA .. Jeff Bezos needs to sell it back

[@lyndy101]

Late stage capitalism baby

[@andrewmarsjr9879]

Inside the nba sucks

[@AteCerealWithNoMilk]

Just don't watch any other pre-game show or post game show, and i bet they bring it back 😂

[@snarkmark2806]

I’ll bet you’re wrong. EJ’s contract is directly withTNT, and he does more than this show. Barkley is also talking retirement. There will be no more show.

[@gamereviews6455]

nooooooooooooooooo😢

[@MrRosa022]

They are old and outdated. Also isn't Shaq "close" friend with Kevin Hart and Bieber. Fishy!

[@PrimoPete]

Either you don't watch basketball or don't know what a majority of us think regarding Inside. Inside sometimes gets more views than the games it analyzes and is clearly the most entertaining sports show on tv, KZbin and everywhere else.

[@MrRosa022]

@@PrimoPete nah man I do think they are funny. The format is outdated tho.

[@brandonhall4547]

I disagree. Shaq ruined the chemistry with his touchy moodiness and comparing all big men to himself . It’s unwatchable depending on his mood for me

[@brandonhall4547]

I disagree. Shaq ruined the chemistry with his touchy moodiness and comparing all big men to himself . It’s unwatchable depending on his mood for me

[@mabremuzikazadusu2]

Laughable They will do a youtube podcast if they want to continue.

[@massacretv4988]

ADDING BARKLEY WAS a GOAT move by the Management and adding Shaq was a no Brainer.

[@roronoazorro9509]

The NBA didn't abandon its number 1 TV show. The network hosting the show didn't believe the NBA was worth the money it was asking. The NBA then got even more money than that, and TNT can't afford to match. Trying to take amazons small package isn't a viable option. Such is life.

[@Sizdothyx]

The reason is because the NBA on TNT is critical of the product, not just the players. Inside the NBA's competitors don't actually rip on players and the product, they just waffle around the celeb culture and maybe one or two outrage takes, but when Barkley and Shaq talk, the players' and the league's feelings get hurt because of the authority they both have as former players of the game.

[@samcalven12]

Yall mad at NBA but not mad at the WB/TNT CEO for stating last year that TNT doesn’t need the NBA it can succeed without the NBA

[@abualborz]

reason i got into NBA more and more, was becaus of these guys. If they really remove them, that gonna be verybad for NBA itself.

[@The_Servant_of_The_Almighty]

Katt Williams said "Shaq can be controlled" Why do u think that is,what has Diddy got on him????

[@panchov2748]

Because it was bad….. clips don’t make a show good.

[@josecampos4267]

Respect for Barkley sticking to TNT but this is a bad loss. Hoping they do something new together

[@Danilo-f3e]

Its all about money,,playing and simple.

[@petr79]

they could have paid less just for the analysis footage

[@uasakura]

11:40 I disagree with that statement, if Inside the NBA is over, NBA will lose alot of fans. NBA has been very hard to watch in recent years, players are soft and lack of desire to compete, the all star game is a good indicator that players just want to chill and relax. Only a few players would try and play hard these days, which I cant blame them, they are in their 20s, n already have generational wealth. The only reason I keep up with NBA is cuz of inside the NBA, not saying everyone is, but quite a lot of people are. So, Im keen to see how NBA goes moving forward.

[@hellothere-us7iw]

Ernie staying with Tnt also death of the show from getting picked up by other networks

[@mahihoque4598]

Everyone must think this but, I loverd the days when we got most of the things on cable which was quite cheap and actually enjoyed contents, unlike today when there is no end of contents but most still dont get that fulfillment. For anyone thinking I'm a old guy ranting, I'm just 23😅

[@cinnabar546]

They need each other. NBA is so unwatchable and NBA on TNT makes it very bearable

[@toogoodforyou7712]

Now we only have a show that always praise LeBron no matter how suck he is...

[@ronaldrenearmstrong9872]

I HATE SHAQ WHEB HE SAID WEMBY IS BOL BOL AND RICHAD JEFFERSON SAYING CHET BETTER THAN WEMBY

[@vagabond4576]

Inside the NBA Barkley=comedy. We lost a gem. But eventually he would leave anyway cause of age but could have had a few more seasons on him before he checked out.

[@Dimsum8822]

How are you to watch coverage on Amazon, Do you have to go online, i can't watch it on TV anymore? Confusing

[@snarkmark2806]

Bye, Felicia. In the words of the Oracle: everything that has a beginning has an end.

[@serbonkers4130]

we didnt even had a proper sendoff for the guys. sad man

[@chankston9846]

I have no fucking clue what any of the references are that Charles made in 0:54

[@alvin081988]

Streaming Platforms that is the answer

[@RaffyMaBoi]

I still cant believe ernie can hit swish three's

[@zai6311]

-4 bron haters😂

[@RvLicious69]

People still watch tv?

[@cinnabar546]

aint gonna watch shit

[@lilshaq32]

NBA filled their pockets but lost the fan base.

[@lakerskid2013]

Tradition once again being lost in another way all because of more money

[@NicholasBeamon-z7s]

😢

[@raymondsanjose3955]

After Kobe's Era NBA became boring that's why im watching euroleague

[@blackpope8834]

That show was a waste of time anyway.

[@JayEm1325]

Because their takes are trash. Im so done with these old guys just trashing current players. Shaq comes off as an insecure boy every single fkn time.

[@Treeko55]

Man, these shows and takes from these fools needed to be stopped. Thank god

[@dwitt4574]

NBA sucks but this show was fun. Unscripted is always best if you have right personality. Curb your Enthusiasm is good example

[@Foreriverricky]

good riddance! These old heads don't even watch the games, they just banter. We need a new version with Kenny B, LOW, and Swishout. Folks like them is next up

[@SuperHiFiGaming]

3 of the dumbest talking heads in the game. Just say you like stroking it to klutch propaganda weirdo.

[@graham5990]

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[@Dloopgroop]

To be fair that batgirl movie was dead in the water and he didn't need to spend on marketing

[@popunkid]

My one critique, unless I missed something, Charles has said they’re bringing back the show in some form. I saw rumors that there was also infighting, but I didn’t hear mention of the many instances Charles said the show would continue in some form.

[@HenryHoops]

From my research - it's definitely possible but not super likely Barkley said they could keep the show going under with Amazon but they would have to keep the entire TNT studio team. Also, apparently Ernie won't leave Atlanta regardless of any payday with AMZ. But theoretically Chuck, Ernie, Shaq and Kenny could open their own "studio" hire the exact same staff, sell the rights to AMZ (who would be dumb not to accept) and keep the show going for a few years. But they are also getting to retirement age so this might just be the writing on the wall