However Charles Barkley was smart sufficient to demand an out clause in his final contract negotiation, which permits him to turn into a TV free agent if TNT loses NBA rights. With TNT prone to take the NBA to court docket, the community’s not out of the sport but. Now, odds are the NBA might be on Prime, not TNT, beginning with the 2025–2026 season. As ‘Tuned In’ predicted on Could 2, that might immediately ship Sir Charles’s star into the stratosphere. The Chuckster could command $20 million-plus offers from the NBA’s new trio of rights partners: newcomer Prime; incumbent ABC/ESPN; and former broadcast accomplice NBC, which held the rights in the course of the Michael Jordan golden period from 1990 to 2002. ESPN is already eying Barkley and the whole forged of Contained in the NBA, say my sources. Ditto for Prime. After the NBA and Prime formally introduced the deal, Entrance Workplace Sports activities spoke one-on-one with Jay Marine, world head of sports activities for Prime Video. Marine spoke rigorously about his curiosity in Barkley and the remainder of the Contained in the NBA forged. However he professed his robust admiration for Barkley and the present, noting it impressed Prime’s personal Thursday Evening Soccer wraparound programming with host Charissa Thompson.
Supply: Front Office Sports
Supply: Front Office Sports
