The legendary show felt exactly the same on its new network. And our columnists say that is exactly the point.

Dedicated viewers will observe that TNT has been booted off entirely after 40 years of broadcasting the league. “Inside the NBA,” TNT’s poster broadcast, has been moved off Tuesdays and Thursdays and replaced by NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime, respectively.

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.

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.

Inside the NBA' returns on ESPN this season with Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Shaquille O'Neal and Ernie Johnson. Here's the schedule.

Dating back to when the agreement for ESPN to lease Inside the NBA from TNT Sports was first announced nearly a year ago, the Worldwide Leader would tell anyone who would listen that the beloved studio show would remain untouched.

The studio program to serve as pregame, halftime and postgame show for highth-profile NBA events on ESPN and ABC.

Postgame editions will be open-ended on ESPN while ABC will run a half-hour and then continue on the ESPN app. The program will air on 20 dates during the regular season and throughout the NBA Playoffs, including the Eastern Conference Finals and the NBA Finals.

This is the first season of a future-altering media rights extension that the Big 12 struck with ESPN and Fox back in 2022.

Bruce Pearl is freshly retired as Auburn's basketball coach, but he'll be staying busy this season, joining TNT's team of in-studio analysts.

Esteemed NBA pre-game show 'Inside the NBA' has moved to ESPN for the 2025-26 season. Here are the best moments from the first broadcast of the year.

TNT Sports will roll into the first season of new deals covering Big East and Big 12 basketball with the additions of recently retired coach Bruce Pearl, Jalen Rose and Jamal Mashburn to its studio coverage.