A scorching matter of dialogue throughout the 2023-24 NBA season and all through the offseason has been what the league can be like after the upcoming 2024-25 marketing campaign, with it chopping ties with TNT and ending the community’s top-notch protection all through the season.
The primary concern amongst followers is whether or not the viewing expertise and protection would be the identical, with the extremely in style program “NBA on TNT,” headlined by Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal, probably now not present.
The information of this all falling aside for TNT doesn’t sit properly with many followers who rely on the community to observe the sport they love.
Together with the community shedding NBA rights, there have been many questions on the rapid futures of TNT workers, like NBA insider Chris Haynes.
In accordance with Ryan Glasspiegel of the New York Put up, Haynes is, the truth is, leaving TNT, by way of NBACentral.
BREAKING: Chris Haynes is leaving TNT, per @sportsrapport pic.twitter.com/AKOy96GbmK
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) August 29, 2024
Haynes is only one of many notable personalities impacted by this modification, however he’s such a longtime identify within the enterprise and one of many prime reporters on league issues that he possible gained’t be sidelined for very lengthy, as one other outlet will nearly definitely supply him a deal.
Solely time will inform what the long-term impression of the league transferring away from TNT can be, particularly with everybody questioning what’s subsequent for the high-profile “NBA on TNT” crew, although Barkley has pledged to stick with the corporate, as has Ernie Johnson.
