If I was going to trade somebody that I had respect for and appreciate, I would at least give them a heads up.”

"If I was going to trade somebody that I had respect for and appreciate, I would at least give them a heads up."

Charles Barkley vented his frustration with how TNT handled the ESPN licensing deal, revealing that the crew was completely left in the dark.

Jalen Rose sat in for Kenny Smith on the popular show “Inside the NBA.” Rose stopped working with ESPN last year, but was a perfect co-host on the TNT program.

Earlier this year, TNT’s Inside the NBA was facing cancellation due to a situation between the eponymous sports league and Warner Bros. Discovery. The tide recently changed in a big way, though, as the aforementioned network and its parent company struck a deal with ESPN to keep the show on the air well beyond the 2025 TV schedule.

Charles Barkley wasn’t gonna let the night go by without making a joke about their upcoming move to ESPN next fall.

Rose fit in perfectly with Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, and Ernie Johnson and one of his best lines of the night had fans howling. In case you missed it, Rose, who used to be an analyst on ESPN's NBA studio show,