Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley revealed earlier this week that he turned down 'a minimum of $100 million' in order to stay at TNT, where he has been an NBA analyst since 2000.
After the NBA signed a new rights deal with ESPN, NBC and Amazon Prime, Charles Barkley could have gone there, also — but he opted to stay home. Barkley has been an NBA analyst on TNT since 2000, and once it started to look like TNT would no longer broadcast the league's games, Barkley announced that the upcoming season would be his final one.
But, as far as the network's relationship with the NBA is concerned, TNT feels they have not been able to fairly match the new rights deal, thus leading to a lawsuit, and the likely ending of Barkley's broadcasting work in the NBA. Barkley, though, has insisted that he would not leave for another network, and this week, he revealed he turned down nine figures to go elsewhere.
did recently land the rights to some College Football Playoff games, and the network will also serve as the U.S. broadcasting home for the French Open tennis tournament beginning in 2025. The pivot to tennis and college football could be viewed as a way for the network to try and fill the hole that would be left behind from the loss of the NBA. Fox News' Chantz Martin contributed to this report.
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