The new NBA TV deal begins Tuesday. Where are my games?

Last year, the NBA signed a caller 11-year, $77-billion media rights woody that volition marque the league a batch richer and dramatically change the tune-in habits of fans erstwhile the 2025-26 play tips disconnected this week.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s cablegram web TNT volition nary longer transportation the league’s games, but its iconic workplace amusement “Inside the NBA” lives connected astatine ESPN.

More games volition aerial exclusively connected streaming platforms than ever earlier arsenic Amazon Prime Video and NBCUniversal’s Peacock person important packages successful the caller deal.

Here’s what you request to cognize earlier the enactment begins.

“Roundball Rock” returns

NBC is backmost successful the NBA concern aft 23 years, carrying up to 100 regular play games connected the broadcast web and its Peacock streaming platform. The web volition transportation a premier clip crippled Tuesdays starting this week and Sundays arsenic of Feb. 1. NBCUniversal’s Telemundo volition transportation 12 of the Sunday nighttime NBA games successful Spanish. Peacock volition exclusively watercourse up to 3 games nationally Mondays.

NBC is besides the caller location for the NBA’s All-Star weekend, acceptable for February successful Los Angeles.

John Tesh plays “Roundball Rock” successful an NBC Sports promo for its NBA coverage.

(NBC Sports)

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said successful an interrogation that the league’s determination to NBC is much of a homecoming than a transition.

“A batch of the DNA is inactive successful place,” Silver said. “Many of the producers we worked with 20-plus years agone are inactive with the organization. In immoderate ways we’re capable to prime up wherever we near off.”

The web is leaning into its practice arsenic the location of the league from 1990 to 2002, erstwhile Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six championships, galvanizing instrumentality involvement to caller heights. Even John Tesh’s “Roundball Rock” — the infectious percussive taxable opus utilized during the epoch — is returning.

Jordan has been hired arsenic a peculiar contributor, but the web has played it adjacent to the vest astir however the NBA fable volition beryllium used.

“You volition spot him connected opening nighttime successful immoderate capacity,” NBC Sports President Rick Cordella told The Times.

Western Conference fans should admit NBC’s attack to its “Coast 2 Coast Tuesday” telecasts starting Oct. 28. In astir weeks, NBC TV stations successful the Western and Mountain clip zones volition get their ain games successful premier clip astatine 8 p.m., alternatively than a 5 p.m. commencement clip for an East Coast contest.

Cordella noted that having having abstracted premier clip games successful 2 regions volition assistance boost ratings arsenic much radical volition beryllium disposable to ticker successful those hours. Fans crossed the state volition beryllium capable to watercourse some games connected Peacock nary substance wherever they live.

A caller location for ‘Inside the NBA’

ESPN retained its bundle of regular play games, playoffs and the NBA Finals. But the astir anticipated constituent of its sum this play volition beryllium the accomplishment of “Inside the NBA,” airing earlier and aft selected games connected ESPN and ABC.

When TNT mislaid the rights to the NBA, fans of the unfiltered gabfest with Ernie Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith were despondent implicit the anticipation of its demise aft 36 years. ESPN reached an statement with TNT to proceed producing the programme successful speech for a bundle of assemblage shot games.

Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley connected “Inside the NBA.”

(TNT Sports)

Starting with a doubleheader Wednesday, “Inside the NBA” volition aerial for an hr earlier selected games connected ESPN and a half-hour up of ABC telecasts.

Postgame editions volition beryllium open-ended connected ESPN portion ABC volition tally a half-hour and past proceed connected the ESPN app. The programme volition aerial connected 20 dates during the regular play and passim the NBA Playoffs, including the Eastern Conference Finals and the NBA Finals.

Tim Corrigan, elder vice president of sports accumulation for ESPN, said successful a caller quality league that thing volition alteration connected the programme extracurricular of it being connected a caller network. Along with the hosts, the graphics, the euphony and the cognition volition stay the aforesaid and volition inactive beryllium produced astatine TNT Sports’ studios successful Atlanta with its longtime accumulation team.

“We privation them to bash their show,” Corrigan said.

All of the games connected ESPN and ABC are disposable connected ESPN’s precocious launched direct-to-consumer streaming work disposable to fans who don’t person a wage TV subscription.

NBA comes to Prime Video

Amazon is the caller kid connected the block, with 67 NBA games exclusively connected the Prime Video streaming level starting with a doubleheader Friday.

The streamer volition transportation each crippled successful the knockout circular of the Emirates NBA Cup, the postseason SoFi Play-In Tournament and first- and second-round playoff games. Prime volition besides transportation 2 planetary NBA games this twelvemonth and grip the league finals successful six of the adjacent 11 seasons.

Prime Video volition marque on-screen beforehand stats portion of its NBA coverage.

(Prime Video)

Prime developed a fig of on-screen features for its “Thursday Night Football” coverage, and viewers tin expect the aforesaid for the NBA, wherever fans tin entree pivotal moments successful the crippled oregon get a accelerated recap if they tune successful late.

Fans who subscribe to NBA League Pass, a streaming level that provides entree to out-of-market games, tin nexus the work to Prime Video to ticker aggregate games astatine erstwhile connected the aforesaid screen.

Prime Video is besides teaming with the online sportsbook app FanDuel, giving bettors the quality to way the advancement of their wagers portion watching a game. (FanDuel is not disposable to usage successful California.)