Bill Simmons Thinks ESPN May Mess Up “Inside the NBA” Show With Commercials

If you’re a fan of “Inside the NBA” like me, you’ve probably heard about Bill Simmons‘ warning that ESPN might ruin our favorite show with how they go about their commercials. Do you think Bills got a point!?

With ESPN taking over the show, there’s a real concern that we might end up watching more commercials than actual basketball analysis. I don’t know about you, but I’m not really looking forward to watching commercials instead of hearing Shaq’s hilarious takes on the game.

The show will move to ESPN, and the former employee of the network opined recently that it would ruin the show without a change to the way it structures its commercial breaks.

“Unless they completely change how they do commercials, the show is gonna be different, people are gonna be pissed and Barkley and those guys are gonna be pissed and I think it’s going to go badly,” Simmons said on “The Bill Simmons Podcast. “The only way it doesn’t go badly is if they do the commercials and they give them the lengthy segments that you need to have that show work. They’re going to have to change how they do it.

“They just paid so much for the NBA that if they don’t do that and they do the same short, terrible segments that you’re about to see in the Finals where it’s like a one and a half minute halftime and it’s like a 20 minute pregame, they do that they’re going to f–k the show up and everybody’s going to be mad.”

Simmons alleged that ESPN had “not cared for this entire century about this” issue with the commercial breaks and that “whoever is running ESPN” had simply “just cashed the checks from the commercials.”

Details have started to emerge about ESPN’s plans for the show once it lands on the Disney-owned network’s airwaves.

ESPN has no plans to change the show’s DNA and TNT will retain complete editorial control over the show, Front Office Sports reported Monday.

Let’s hope ESPN listens to the fans and keeps the show just the way it is – full of laughs, insights, and no annoying commercials!

Flip to the next page to watch Bill Simmons express concerns about how the show might turn out on ESPN…

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