“These people I work with, they screwed this thing up—clearly,” Charles Barkley fired off after the NBA rejected Warner Bros. Discovery’s offer to match Amazon’s $1.8 billion per-year bid for the league’s games starting 2025-26. While his frustration with TNT isn’t over, Chuck’s latest rant shifts toward the league itself. With the NBA’s upcoming broadcast schedule out, Barkley has some strong claims to make about how things are being handled.
Commissioner Adam Silver’s NBA announced its full 2025-26 regular-season schedule, covering everything from opening night to Christmas Day and MLK Day matchups. The season will tip off with the defending champion OKC taking on the new-look Rockets on Oct. 21. But this year isn’t just about the games; it comes with an eagerly anticipated new media