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They won’t outright publicly say it, but if you listen closely enough to the plans of the NBA newcomers — NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video — you can tell that they hope to be the anti-“Inside The NBA.”
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While the Charles Barkley-led show that is migrating from TNT to ESPN is iconic, there is a perception that the program’s analysts, led by Sir Diss-a-Lot Barkley, are haters.
What makes Barkley the best studio analyst of all-time is that he’s willing to say anything about anybody and will do it with humor. To be fair, both NBC and Amazon admire Barkley, to the point they looked into hiring him after TNT lost the rights to broadcast NBA games.
Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson have be
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