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Postgame editions will be open-ended on ESPN while ABC will run a half-hour and then continue on the ESPN app. The program will air on 20 dates during the regular season and throughout the NBA Playoffs, including the Eastern Conference Finals and the NBA Finals.
A look at the new NBA television landscape, and what to expect as NBC, Peacock and Amazon Prime join ABC and ESPN as rights-holders.
NBC is returning to the sport after decades on the sideline, and streaming power player Amazon is joining the fray as key placements sell out.
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Alaa Abdelnaby back calling Sixers games on NBC Sports Philadelphia as the NBA adds NBC and Amazon
Abdelnaby, the former Duke standout and NBA player, is entering his 10th season calling Sixers games (and his fifth alongside Scott). He was hired in the middle of “The Process,” but despite the Sixers losing 72 games during his first season, last season was his most difficult as a broadcaster.
The Oklahoma City Thunder will try to do something that hasn't been done in the NBA since 2018 — repeat as champion.
The No 1 pick in the draft starts his season when the Dallas Mavericks host the San Antonio Spurs Wednesday night. The game will tip at 7:30 p.m. MT/8:30 p.m. CT.
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.
NBC’s lead team of play-by-play man Mike Tirico, analysts Miller and Jamal Crawford and sideline reporter Zora Stephenson will be in OKC on Tuesday.
The studio program to serve as pregame, halftime and postgame show for highth-profile NBA events on ESPN and ABC.
A new NBA season starts Tuesday. A new TV deal kicks in along with it. And that means fans having to figure out which games are where on what days.