NBA Analyst Charles Barkley is RETIRING next season (After the 2024-2025 Season)
Well I really should have seen this coming from a country mile away. It looks like an end of an era is coming after next season. First came word about TNT is on the verge of losing there place in the NBA TV landscape (although it is not official at this time, there should be an update soon). Now come word there long time NBA analyst Charles Barkley is retiring from broadcasting, period. This comes after a 25 year run since his playing days ended in the late 1990’s. The greatest basketball player, and iconic sports figure from Leeds, Alabama. Great playing basketball in the early 1980’s for the University of Auburn. I didn’t see him play, until he got to the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers, later with the Phoenix Suns, and wrapping up his playing career with the Houston Rockets. Barkley never won a NBA championship, but he did have one of the greatest NBA careers of all time anyway. I view him as the Dan Marino of his era of not winning a championship. How ironic like Marino, Barkley did put up some great numbers in the NBA Stats department. I knew he was going to be a great broadcaster, and he never disappoint at all. They need to put Barkley in the Sports Broadcasting Hall Of Fame, Barkley would get my vote if I had one. Both TNT and NBA TV are going to miss him greatly when he goes away next year at this time. I hope TNT has a bunch of games next season to signal the end of a long and outstanding relationship with the NBA. Turner Sports starting doing NBA games back in 1984 when TBS was doing it, eventually TNT became a TV Channel back in 1988 and had gotten the TV rights to the NBA. TNT has been doing games ever since, Charles Barkley came on the scene back in 1999 and has been there ever since. The NBA is going to look very different after the 2025 NBA Playoffs. We NBA fans can’t wait, but before that day happens we should look back into the many moments of Charles Barkley. There may not be another analyst like him as long as I live. Kudos to you Charles Barkley, the greatest NBA player and analyst this world has ever seen.
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