Charles Barkley went from feeling invincible in his final year at TNT Sports to staring at a looming partnership with Mickey Mouse. Inside the NBA is heading to ESPN next season and Barkley had a very unique way of acknowledging the surprising news Tuesday night.

Earlier this year, TNT’s Inside the NBA was facing cancellation due to a situation between the eponymous sports league and Warner Bros. Discovery. The tide recently changed in a big way, though, as the aforementioned network and its parent company struck a deal with ESPN to keep the show on the air well beyond the 2025 TV schedule.

Charles Barkley claims he's ecstatic about Inside the NBA staying on the air but is unsure how the deal with ESPN will work.

Many NBA fans are worried about how "Inside the NBA" could change after the show moves to ESPN, and it sounds like Charles Barkley shares some of those

Barkley’s contract with TNT, which will be honored despite the new licensing arrangement, is massive. He signed a new 10-year deal with the network in 2022 that could be worth up to $210 million. On Tuesday, Charles Barkley had this to say about the latest development:

Inside the NBA host Charles Barkley will not be censored by ESPN even with the terms of the show's new network deal

Inside the NBA,” the Emmy-dominating halftime and postgame program starring Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Ernie Johnson and Shaquille O’Neal, will begin airing on ESPN and ABC next season, parent

Throughout the NBA media rights saga, Charles Barkley never shied from responding. The post Charles Barkley Breaks Silence on ESPN Deal as Inside the NBA's Survival Triggers Massive Shift appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Barkley has had some fun this season cracking jokes about the show's future and how they didn't have to worry about bosses because they were likely going to lose their jobs anyway