Charles Barkley Backs Off Retirement Plans, Will Stay With Warner Bros. Discovery Beyond NBA Deal
variety.comBrian 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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