{"id":880828,"date":"2026-09-05T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880828\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:48:15","slug":"charles-barkley-is-100-percent-leaving-inside-the-nba-unless-one-condition-is-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880828\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Barkley is &#8216;100 percent&#8217; leaving Inside the NBA unless one condition is met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMWcxajNfc2h3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Follow us on Google Discover <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>NBA legend Charles Barkley\u2019s time with ESPN and Inside the NBA may come to a quick end.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Inside the NBA officially moved on from TNT Sports as the show started airing on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the networks changing, the show retained its entire crew, i.e., Charles Barkley, Shaquille O\u2019Neal, Ernie Johnson, and Kenny Smith.<\/p>\n<p>But after just one season, two out of the iconic four co-hosts may call it quits on their broadcasting careers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-983948700-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Barkley (L) and Ernie Johnson Jr. attend 2018 NBA Awards at Barkar Hangar.\" class=\"wp-image-2096259\" \/>Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Turner SportsCharles Barkley says he will leave Inside the NBA if Ernie Johnson retires<\/p>\n<p> Barkley recently joined \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2KU0O47qbt63qQEu2xw8Kj?si=autvE9WGQvO933THu4JmHA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Bill Simmons podcast<\/a>,\u2019 where the NBA legend shared the truth about his and Johnson\u2019s future on Inside the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck revealed that Johnson, 70, is retiring. But how does this impact Barkley\u2019s future? Well, he just explained that to Bill Simmons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and Ernie are a package deal. So right now, unless Ernie changes his mind, next year is my last year 100 percent,\u201d Barkley said.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Johnson has no plans to return to the show and it will likely mean the network replacing him with another co-host.<\/p>\n<p>But the more difficult task will be to replace Barkley, as his razor-sharp takes and incredible chemistry with his co-hosts is hard to find.<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive exclusive football transfer news and updates twice a week to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover NBA legend Charles Barkley\u2019s time with ESPN and Inside the NBA may come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,24057,590,85],"class_list":["post-880828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charles-barkley","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880828","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=880828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}