As sports media continues to react to the news of the NBA being likely to leave TNT in favor of renewing with ESPN and signing new deals with NBA and Amazon’s Prime Video, 610 Sports Kansas City host Carrington Harrison weighed in on The Drive about TNT’s Inside the NBA possibly being lost in the shuffle after next season.
Harrison played an audio clip of Charles Barkley joining The Dan Patrick Show to discuss the latest with the situation. “Morale sucks – plain and simple,” Barkley said. “I just feel so bad for the people I work with, Dan. These people have families, and I just feel really bad for them right now, these people I work with. They screwed this thing up clearly. We don’t have zero idea what’s going to happen. I don’t feel good – I’m not going to lie – especially when they came out yesterday and said, ‘We bought college football.’ I was like, ‘Oh damn, they could have used that money to buy the NBA.’”
As the clip ended, Harrison said, “I can’t express how sad I am about the potential of losing Inside the NBA, I don’t know what’s going to happen. Maybe this show just moves from one network to the next, but Erine [Johnson] has been pretty steadfast on ‘I don’t want to work for another network, I work for Turner and even if they don’t have the NBA I am staying loyal to Turner.’
“They need all of them if the show is going to work. Shaq, Kenny, Ernie, Charles, we need all of you. You are a package deal in all of this. Maybe Amazon comes in and throws a boatload of money. Maybe ESPN, which has been trying to fix its NBA television problem it feels like for 20 years…It makes me so sad.”
Harrison went on to say Inside the NBA belongs on the ‘Mt. Rushmore of Sports Television Shows’ and named College GameDay, SportsCenter and PTI as the other three on his list.
