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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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."
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."
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!"
Kenny Smith thinks social media would have been ‘too much’ for Michael Jordan
"It was almost too much and there was no social media."
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."
Shaq blamed ‘bad lasagna’ after ripping rancid fart on Inside the NBA
"Sorry about that."
Shaq desperately attempts to hide his laughter over Charles Barkley’s accidental innuendo
"I’m kind of juggling two balls right here."
Charles Barkley and Shaq cracked up over Derrick White’s hairline: ‘Is that Derrick White or Stephen A.?’
"You'll never find, blum blum blum blum, a hairline like mine!"
Ernie Johnson sounds fed up with Charles Barkley’s NBA analysis
"You’re the only person who would want to be in the play-in."
Charles Barkley’s story of “accidents with the soap” cracked up the Inside The NBA cast
"I almost had an incident with those little bars of soap. I almost lost it, and I was like 'Whoa, that was too close for comfort!' So now I travel with my own big bars of soap."
Doug Gottlieb reflects on his ‘white man’s perspective’ joke: ‘Somebody should have said don’t do that.’
"I didn’t need to try and crack a joke when I’m naturally pretty humorous."
