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Shaquille O'Neal Ready For A New Beginning After TNT Departure

Shandel Richardson

Feb 25, 2012; Orlando, FL, USA; Shaquille O'Neal (left), Ernie Johnson (lc), Chris Weber (rc), and Charles Barkley (right) on the TNT set at the 2012 NBA All-Star Shooting Stars competition at the Amway Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-Imagn Images
Feb 25, 2012; Orlando, FL, USA; Shaquille O'Neal (left), Ernie Johnson (lc), Chris Weber (rc), and Charles Barkley (right) on the TNT set at the 2012 NBA All-Star Shooting Stars competition at the Amway Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-Imagn Images / Bob Donnan-Imagn Images

Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson have made up one of the best foursomes in NBA history.

They have hosted Inside The NBA on TNT for the majority of the past two decades but it comes to an end after this season. The NBA is moving to Peacock NBC Sports this fall. The old TNT crew hasn't found a new home but it is ready for a new beginning.

"There's an old saying when something passes, something is reborn," O'Neal said before Thursday's Game 5 of Indiana Pacers-New York Knicks series. "Yes, it's the ending of the Inside The NBA on TNT but it's the new beginning for us."

O'Neal said the group will a complete new show wherever they land.

"I'm glad we're still together on whatever network we go to," O'Neal said. "Whatever network we're coming to, we're bringing the pain. Just letting you know right now. I know everybody is sad. The show is still here, baby. You can never kill the four horseman. We coming and we coming to take spots. We coming to kick and we coming to take names and we doing it our way. All the sadness about that show, we're coming with a whole brand new show and we don't care who in our way."

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Shandel Richardson
SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star. TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here