TNT’s Kenny Smith questions ESPN’s decision to lay off top commentators
"Because certain guys are getting let go, and then you hire someone else for more money. I have no idea why they’re doing it, but stability is what brings success."
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Michelle Beadle explains why ‘TNT dominates ESPN’ in NBA coverage
"That position and that show has never been allowed to marinate and it’s sort of why you continue to see change."
NBA fans bemoan ‘boring’ draft
"The NBA Draft is just not a good TV event."
Charles Barkley doesn’t think Kobe Bryant would have fit Inside the NBA: ‘He’s a real serious guy.’
"I don’t know if he was built to have fun. He was a great person, I liked him, rest in peace. But he was a real serious guy."
Ernie Johnson on the Inside the NBA crew: ‘We love each other…this is as close as I’ll ever come to having brothers’
"I’m in the fortunate position of getting us from point A to point B to point C with three guys who have been in every conceivable situation in a basketball game."
Shaq, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith slated to join NBA TV’s Finals coverage
"I love basketball, but I love summer vacation more. I ain’t gonna get on here and lie!"
Inside The NBA pays tribute to retiring producer Tim Kiely: ‘You’re the best of all time.’
"You've been the architect of all of this, honestly...the architect of what this is."
Shaq loses it as Charles Barkley pleads to sit on a monster: ‘What you wanna sit on, Chuck?’
"Just a viral moment waiting to happen."
Shaq finally served with FTX lawsuits while on assignment for TNT
Our long national nightmare is over.
Charles Barkley rips ESPN’s LeBron James-Los Angeles Lakers favoritism
"I was so mad this morning I actually turned the TV off."
Shaq hints at Steph Curry getting him involved with FTX
"Thanks for getting me in trouble. Don't say nothing."
Inside The NBA ’embarrassed’ for Boston fans: ‘Since the Celtics quit, can we quit?’
"We welcome you to Inside The NBA, presented by Kia, even though it feels a lot more like a Forensic Files episode after watching that."
After decades producing ‘Inside The NBA,’ Tim Kiely is retiring
"Tim Kiely is a visionary who has reinvented studio shows for generations of sports fans. As the architect of TNT’s ‘Inside the NBA’, his influence and impact on sports media has been profound."
The gulf between ESPN and TNT’s NBA coverage has never been greater
Shaq and Charles Barkley laugh uncontrollably after Anthony Davis reportedly left game in wheelchair
"Shaq is over there crumpling up paper, that’s why I’m laughing!"
Charles Barkley on Mat Ishbia-Nikola Jokić clash: ‘If another fan wouldn’t have let the ball go, he would have got tossed.’
"If that had been a regular fan, he would have got tossed."
Inside the NBA crew roast Kenny Smith over TMZ beach photos with model Aline Bernardes
"TMZ ain't never wrong."
Ernie Johnson says Shaq, Kenny Smith and Barkley don’t need production meetings
"These guys don’t sit in a production meeting and prepare for what they’ll say in each segment and get their thoughts organized. We just want a gut-level, genuine reaction."
