Starting with the 2025-2026 season, the 21-time Emmy-winning program "Inside the NBA" is broadcasting on ESPN and ABC. TNT Sports, the network that lost its game rights, reached a rare licensing agreement with ESPN to carry the show.

Now that the analysts at the beloved "Inside the NBA" program are syndicated at ESPN, their schedule will look very different with the new TV deal.

Fans tuning into the NBA this season will have to adjust their viewing habits to new networks and a seven-day-a-week national TV schedule.

Inside the NBA' returns on ESPN this season with Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Shaquille O'Neal and Ernie Johnson. Here's the schedule.

A look at the new NBA television landscape, and what to expect as NBC, Peacock and Amazon Prime join ABC and ESPN as rights-holders.

ESPN has confirmed a 20-episode Inside the NBA schedule for the 2025–26 season, with Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Shaquille O'Neal being relegated to their original roles.

Inside The NBA has long held center stage and has remained unchanged for many years. ESPN rotates analysts pretty regularly and long had a set-in-stone broadcast team. Those will still be around this season, but the NBC and Prime Video rosters will have fresh faces.

Abdelnaby, the former Duke standout and NBA player, is entering his 10th season calling Sixers games (and his fifth alongside Scott). He was hired in the middle of “The Process,” but despite the Sixers losing 72 games during his first season, last season was his most difficult as a broadcaster.

NBC is returning to the sport after decades on the sideline, and streaming power player Amazon is joining the fray as key placements sell out.

Later tonight (October 21), the 2025-2026 NBA season officially begins when Kevin Durant and the new-look Houston Rockets travel to Oklahoma City to take on the defending champs,