Before Inside the NBA airs its first episode at its new ESPN home, Charles Barkley already has some programming concerns.

Appearing on Barstool Sports’ Pardon My Take, the Hall of Famer expressed worries about potential time constraints.

“We have questions. Like normally the number one time on our show is after the game. You get like 45 minutes to shoot the sh*t. That’s the magic,” Barkley explained. “But me and Ernie [Johnson] have talked about it. Like, are we gonna get to do that? Are they gonna say we gotta go to the SportsCenter?”

“First of all, it’s an honor to work for ESPN because they’re the biggest sports network in the history of television,” he continued. “But like, when we have those 45 minutes and it’s like one o’clock in the morning and we can just go crazy and it gets weird — but are they gonna say, ‘no guys, y’all got 15 minutes. We gotta go to SportsCenter.”

After Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the parent company of TNT Sports, lost the rights to air NBA games under the league's new media rights agreement, Inside the NBA will air on ESPN through a unique sub-licensing agreement. While the network remains the biggest sports platform in the world and it has promised not to tinker with the Emmy-winning show, Barkley is not so sure.

“Everybody can say right now, ‘yeah, we're gonna leave everything the same,'” Barkley said. “But like if the game ends, is SportsCenter going to say, ‘y’all got 45 minutes to shoot the sh*t.’ Or, ‘we need to go to SportsCenter in 15 or 20 minutes.’ It’s gonna be a learning curve.”