This was on the most recent episode of the Bill Simmons podcast when he made this as a throwaway comment. He speculates they’re waiting until the playoffs are done for TNT to announce it. He also doesn’t provide the $$ on this but Bill is plugged on on rich people things with the NBA.
Source: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-undertaker-nuggets-the-knicks-on-fumes-okcs/id1043699613?i=1000655377215
by EarthWarping
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RIP inside the nba
I hope they bring back their theme song. All great TV shows have great intro music. The Wire, Breaking Bad, Seinfeld, Sopranos* etc.
Yeah, inside the nba just randomly posted a tweet asking for the favorite moments of Ernie like an hour ago for no reason. It’s done
Lol this sucks
Why couldn’t ESPN have been the one to suffer
This better not mean Tirico on nba games. I’d rather listen to JVG talk about fucking his cousin than listen to that serial sexual harasser Tirico
*“David Zaslav is beside himself. Driving around Downtown Atlanta begging (thru texts) if he can get a tax write-off for losing the NBA contract.”*
Postseason games as Peacock exclusives…ugh
NBC should trade something for Ernie, they traded rights to a cartoon rabbit to Disney for Al Micheals(true story look it up)
This is what happens when zion AD and kawhi have a healthyish season. Silver gives but silver also takes
LMAO, that’s the exact reason. You would think that somebody who runs a media company would know that timing is everything.
This is so sad I look forward to inside the nba on Thursdays. It won’t be the same
It was a hell of a run
my body is ready for ROUND BALL ROCK
the retirement tour of the show next year is going to be next level
are they going to send themselves going fishing on the last episode of Inside the NBA? noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Sooo WB is more of a dumpster fire than I thought, they couldnt retain one of their golden geese?! Thats tough
Yeah I’ve been watching this since I was a kid in the 2000s. This is quite sad
Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if TNT won’t match to keep the NBA. Oh well RIP the best NBA coverage I guess
At least I never have to hear Lefkoe again.
I know Ernie wants to stay with TNT but maybe they can figure out some deal where they can still shoot inside the NBA in the same studio and just rent the time from Turner pay them residual or something. Because seriously does any basketball fan want inside the NBA to ever end until those guys are ready to retire? Come on every other show is so horrible Adam Silver or somebody needs to step in
NBC Upfronts are today, probably were saving the big announcement for that
so next season is the last on TNT?
I’m legit kinda stunned. I grew up with it. Stayed up to watch Thursday nights. This is the best show on tv and for it to end it just really really hurts I’m not gonna lie
That last episode is going to be the saddest gone fishing ever
How is playoffs going to work? I can’t imagine NBC is going to cancel their scripted shows for the entire months of May and June to show hoops every other night.
So…wen Sonics?
I really bad part of this is that this will hamper the Disney, WB/Discovery, and Fox sports bundle. That bundle would have covered every major sports event outside of CBS (NFL, College Football/Basketball, or which they only have a small portion of), and NBC (Olympics, NFL). The WB Discovery portion is now losing a bunch of it’s value. Outside of playoffs, you get a few NHL games. Is that really enough to justify paying for them?
Now, maybe the bundle wasn’t going to be worth the price anyway. But this certainly hurts the value the bundle might have had.
Let’s just enjoy this year and next. Rights kick in after 24-25.
Guess they gotta play Shawshank redemption 12 times a week instead of 4 times. /s
Now bring back the Sonics
Im pretty much clueless but how is this anything but a colossal fuck up from Turner?
I’ve always wondered how much profit Inside the NBA actually generates for TNT.
I just can’t imagine that it’s worth the salary costs, but who knows….
You’d never be able to have anything like Chuck unfiltered on NBC network television. Idk if NBC sports even exists anymore on cable.
It’s always whatever’s worst for the fans
Welp, after this season I’ll never be watching TNT ever again.
I’m not paying a cent for Peacock, no matter how games they hold hostage on there.
John Tesh is having a fucking party tonight
They announce it when the Season is over. Since TNT still has Games, it would probably take away from the Games. At the last Show they will probably tell you themselves “That’s it!”
Just fell to my knees in Galveston
What a shame. I watch pretty much any game on TNT because of the crew. Watching the Cavs on ESPN is painful with their terrible crew. Wish it was ESPN that lost instead.
Without Inside the NBA, there is not other program worth watching…
I truly feel that most of the NBA fans will be sad that Inside the NBA is leaving much more than the potential of the broadcasters themselves or in fact TNT itself.
Reminds me of when NBC lost the NBA. There was more online backlash about losing the theme song than the fact that there would be less broadcast TV games.
Straight up feels like when you’re sad someone broke up with someone else not because they broke up but because you’re now exercising your own self interests of if you will see that other person again and in what context
Hate losing inside the nba, but at least my peacock subscription becomes even more valuable.