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Charles Barkley Backs Off Retirement Plans, Will Stay With Warner Bros. Discovery Beyond NBA Deal
Charles Barkley has reversed his recent decision to retire after the next NBA season and says he'll stay at Warner Bros. Discovery to create new shows
The roundball great, who is a mainstay of the long-running TNT studio show “Inside the NBA,” said Tuesday that he will put off previously articulated plans to retire and continue to work through what is believed to be a ten-year contract that kicked off in 2022. Warner on July 26 filed a suit against the NBA in the Supreme Court in the State of New York, alleging that the league had ignored its legal standing to make a matching offer for any package of games previously shown on TNT that had been awarded to a new party. “With some of its key network’s carriage agreements are up for renewal next year, we would expect TNT to have far less leverage in these affiliate negotiations, perhaps even seeing rollbacks in rates, even after factoring in thenew sports rights acquired over the past few months.
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