{"id":313565,"date":"2025-11-28T04:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313565\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T04:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:01:17","slug":"espn-looking-for-more-regularity-with-inside-the-nba-schedule-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/313565\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN looking for ‘more regularity’ with ‘Inside the NBA’ schedule next season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside the NBA has just began its first season on ESPN airwaves under a licensing agreement with TNT Sports, but fans haven\u2019t gotten a heavy dose of Ernie, Chuck, Shaq, and Kenny so far. That\u2019s because Inside was only scheduled for four shows before Christmas.<\/p>\n

ESPN would like to change that in the future. ESPN content president Burke Magnus shared on a recent episode of the\u00a0SI Media with Jimmy Traina podcast<\/a> that he\u2019d like to make\u00a0Inside the NBA a more consistent fixture of ESPN\u2019s NBA coverage starting next season. Magnus said he expects ESPN to discuss a more regular schedule with TNT this offseason so there aren\u2019t long gaps between shows next year.<\/p>\n

The current agreement, however, comes with a provision which requires \u201cthe vast majority\u201d of episodes air after January 1, which could potentially prohibit ESPN from requesting a more regular schedule next season.<\/p>\n

Inside last aired two weeks ago, on November 12, and won\u2019t be on the air again until Christmas<\/a>. After that, the show will be on another nearly month-long break, with the next episode scheduled for January 24.<\/p>\n

The frequency with which\u00a0Inside the NBA airs has been a point of contention for both the on-air talent, particularly Charles Barkley, and fans of the show. Barkley has repeatedly said in interviews that he doesn\u2019t want to be overworked<\/a> under TNT\u2019s new arrangement with ESPN. Under the current agreement, TNT produces 20 episodes of Inside the NBA for ESPN during the regular season, before the show begins its usual postseason run, which will now extend through the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

Perhaps ESPN and TNT will be able to alter the current terms of the deal this offseason, paving the way for more\u00a0Inside the NBA earlier in the season. For now, NBA fans can take solace in the fact that the show will at least be around for the most important inventory on ESPN, and cover the NBA Finals for the first time in its history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside the NBA has just began its first season on ESPN airwaves under a licensing agreement with TNT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,177524,24057,24059,590,177525,85],"class_list":["post-313565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-burke-magnus","tag-charles-barkley","tag-inside-the-nba","tag-nba","tag-nba-on-espn","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}