Charles Barkley says he will retire after the 2024-2025 NBA season

Charles Barkley said Friday that next season will be his last on TV, regardless of what happens with the NBA’s media deals.

The Hall of Fame player has spent the past 24 years working as a studio analyst for TNT, which could lose the rights to broadcast NBA after next season.

But no matter where the games end, Barkley won’t follow them.

“There’s been a lot of noise around our network over the last few months and I just want to say that I’ve talked to all the other networks, but I’m not going anywhere other than TNT,” Barkley said while working on NBA TV’s NBA. Final aftergame show.

The NBA’s current agreements with ABC-ESPN and Turner Sports expire after next season, and the league has been talking to NBC, ESPN and Amazon, among others, about what comes next. Commissioner Adam Silver said last week that he hopes for new long-term agreements will be completed soon.

Barkley and teammates Ernie Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith discussed their uncertain futures on their hit studio show “Inside the NBA.” Barkley would seemingly draw interest from every network that broadcasts the NBA, but the 61-year-old has decided that 25 years will be enough and that he will “hopefully pass the baton to a TNT teammate like Vince Carter or Jamal Crawford.

“But I made the decision myself, no matter what happens: next year will be my last year on television,” he said.

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