Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Charles Barkley says he isn’t getting out of Warner Bros. Discovery‘s sports game. The roundball great, who is a mainstay of the long-running TNT studio show “Inside the NBA,” said Tuesday that he will put off previously articulated plans to retire and continue to work through what is believed to be a ten-year contract that kicked off in 2022.
Warner Bros. Discovery is in the midst of a heated legal squabble with the NBA over keeping some passel of rights to show games after the league’s next season.
Barkley’s reversal could be seen as a sweetener, though NBA executives are believed to have soured on their long-term alliance with Warner.
NBCUniversal, Amazon and Disney are the league’s partners in a new rights deal that would commence next year. “I love my TNT Sports family.
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