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Bob Raissman: ESPN couldn’t compete with ‘Inside the NBA’ so they bought it instead

Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson Jr., left, and analysts Kenny Smith, center, and Charles Barkley speak on the set at the TNT studios in Atlanta, Feb. 4, 2010.
Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson Jr., left, and analysts Kenny Smith, center, and Charles Barkley speak on the set at the TNT studios in Atlanta, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser, File)
New York Daily News
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Lost in a sea of pom-poms celebrating ESPN’s acquisition of TNT’s much decorated “Inside the NBA” are those who valiantly “died;” crushed in the symbolic revolving door that defines the Worldwide Leader’s “NBA Countdown” studio show, the longtime rival of TNT’s NBA offering.

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