Charles Barkley on 'Inside the NBA,' Streaming & More
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Episode 610 of ‘SI Media With Jimmy Traina’ features an interview with ‘Inside the NBA’s’ Charles Barkley.
Barkley defends ‘Inside the NBA’s’ first season on ESPN, calls out the NBA for its playoff scheduling, reacts to his recent dust-up with Draymond Green, and expresses his excitement for ‘Inside the NBA’ to work the NBA Finals for the first time ever.
In addition, Barkley weighs in on ESPN’s Shams Charania spoiling the MVP announcement, LeBron James’s future, the NCAA expanding to a field of 76 teams, patching things up with Michael Jordan, why he loves Sean McDonough, his plans for the offseason, and much more.”
Following Barkley, Sal Licata, from SNY TV and “The Sal Licata Show,” joins Jimmy for their weekly “Traina Thoughts” segment. This week’s topics include the NBA playoffs, NFL schedule thoughts, the podcast’s opening jingle, Sal getting ratio’d on Twitter, Jimmy’s experience buying concert tickets, Auntie Anne’s prices and more.
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| 1:05.6 | the show charles parkley don't need to sell it charles was great as. Talking about this first year of Inside the NBA airing on ESPN. Got the conference finals going on. First year ever you will have inside the NBA, Ernie, Chuck, Kenny, and Shaq covering the finals being on the air pregame, halftime, postgame. |
| 1:29.0 | So get into a ton of stuff with Charles. |
| 1:31.4 | And then Salicada, of course, wraps up the show with me with our weekly train of thought segment. |
| 1:36.7 | Before we get to it, in case you missed it, make sure you go into the archives, check out some recent episodes. |
| 1:41.7 | We had Mike North. |
| 1:43.4 | Podcast came out a day late last week so |
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