Snark, mirth and girth: A very familiar ‘Inside the NBA’ debuts on ESPN

Barkley’s apparent weight loss was mined Wednesday for laughs, as was the cast’s new home following a decades-long run on TNT, in an hour-long pregame show filled with the mirth and trash talk that came to define a program hugely popular among basketball fans. Even seemingly sincere moments of appr...

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