{"id":468293,"date":"2025-11-06T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=468293"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:34:50","slug":"kenny-smith-signs-new-espn-deal-while-staying-with-tnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kenny-smith-signs-new-espn-deal-while-staying-with-tnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Smith signs new ESPN deal while staying with TNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"849\" data-end=\"1157\"><strong data-start=\"849\" data-end=\"864\">Kenny Smith<\/strong>, longtime <strong data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"882\">TNT<\/strong> analyst and <em data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"911\">Inside The NBA<\/em> star, has signed a new deal with <strong data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"953\">ESPN<\/strong> that will expand his appearances across the network\u2019s programming. Despite the agreement, Smith will remain with TNT and continue appearing on <em data-start=\"1097\" data-end=\"1113\">Inside The NBA<\/em>, which ESPN is licensing for this season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1159\" data-end=\"1416\">He will join shows such as <em data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1198\">First Take<\/em> and <em data-start=\"1203\" data-end=\"1218\">NBA Countdown<\/em>, and serve as an analyst for select ESPN game broadcasts. The move, first reported by <em data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1330\">Sports Business Journal<\/em>, highlights a growing collaboration between the two networks during the NBA season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1418\" data-end=\"1504\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Smith, longtime TNT analyst and Inside The NBA star, has signed a new deal with ESPN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":330173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-468293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/jzwKNnwY_400x400.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468293"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=468293"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=468293"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=468293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}