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Tuesday marked the NBA’s return on NBC for the first time since 2002. NBA broadcasts returned to the network as part of an 11-year media rights deal that will see NBC pay $2.5 billion per season.
More than two decades after it last aired an NBA game, NBC is betting on Peacock and Michael Jordan as launches year one of its 11-year deal for the sport.
The start of the new Golden State Warriors season was kicked behind the paywall of a streaming service, in what feels like a foreboding sign for NBC in its return to NBA coverage.
Peacock will feature 100 regular-season NBA games throughout the course of the 2025-2026 season. Find out how to watch your favorite team.
Fans tuning into the NBA this season will have to adjust their viewing habits to new networks and a seven-day-a-week national TV schedule.
1. After a 23-year hiatus, NBC gets back in the NBA business starting tonight with a doubleheader featuring the Thunder at the Rockets at 7:30 p.m. ET and the Warriors at the Lakers at 10 p.m. ET. NBC, which aired the NBA from 1990 to 2002, is entering Year 1 of an 11-year deal with the league.
Bryant Gumbel joined NBC's Today show as a co-host alongside Jane Pauley in 1982, and later with Katie Couric and Deborah Norville.
Former NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony made his debut as an NBC analyst this Tuesday night for the start of the 2025-26 season. After acquiring media rights for this NBA season, NBC got to work by acquiring a few marquee analysts,