How to watch "Inside the NBA" on ESPN: 2025-26 schedule

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Keith Jenkins

Oct 20, 2025, 07:35 PM ET

Ernie and the guys are back.

The 21-time Emmy Award-winning "Inside the NBA" workplace amusement -- featuring Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame big Ernie Johnson and analysts Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal and Kenny Smith -- returns arsenic the pregame, halftime and postgame amusement for ESPN and ABC's NBA sum during the 2025-26 season.

"Inside the NBA," which volition proceed to beryllium produced by TNT Sports from its Atlanta studios, volition statesman 1 hr earlier tipoff for games airing connected ESPN, with the postgame shows starting instantly aft crippled sum concludes. The pregame shows connected ABC volition statesman 30 minutes earlier tipoff. The postgame shows pursuing "NBA Saturday Primetime connected ABC" volition commencement instantly aft the crippled connected ABC and proceed connected the ESPN App. "Inside the NBA" volition service arsenic the pregame amusement for the "NBA Sunday Showcase" bid connected ABC.

Below is the afloat "Inside the NBA" docket for the 2025-26 season:

*All times Eastern

Oct. 22, 2025 - ESPN and ESPN2

Oct. 23, 2025 - ESPN

Oct. 29, 2025 - ESPN

Nov. 12, 2025 - ESPN

Dec. 25, 2025 - ESPN and ABC

Jan. 24, 2026 - ABC

Jan. 28, 2026 - ESPN

Jan. 31, 2026 - ABC

Feb. 7, 2026 - ABC

Feb. 20, 2026 - ESPN