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

Last yr, the NBA signed a brand new 11-year, $77-billion media rights deal that may make the league lots richer and dramatically alter the tune-in habits of followers when the 2025-26 season ideas off this week.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s cable community TNT will now not carry the league’s video games, however its iconic studio present “Inside the NBA” lives on at ESPN.

More video games will air completely on streaming platforms than ever earlier than as Amazon Prime Video and NBCUniversal’s Peacock have important packages within the new deal.

Here’s what you might want to know earlier than the motion begins.

“Roundball Rock” returns

NBC is again within the NBA enterprise after 23 years, carrying as much as 100 common season video games on the printed community and its Peacock streaming platform. The community will carry a first-rate time sport Tuesdays beginning this week and Sundays as of Feb. 1. NBCUniversal’s Telemundo will carry 12 of the Sunday night time NBA video games in Spanish. Peacock will completely stream as much as three video games nationally Mondays.

NBC can be the brand new house for the NBA’s All-Star weekend, set for February in Los Angeles.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stated in an interview that the league’s transfer to NBC is extra of a homecoming than a transition.

“A lot of the DNA is still in place,” Silver stated. “Many of the producers we worked with 20-plus years ago are still with the organization. In some ways we’re able to pick up where we left off.”

The community is leaning into its heritage as the house of the league from 1990 to 2002, when Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to 6 championships, galvanizing fan curiosity to new heights. Even John Tesh’s “Roundball Rock” — the infectious percussive theme music used through the period — is returning.

Jordan has been employed as a particular contributor, however the community has performed it near the vest about how the NBA legend might be used.

“You will see him on opening night in some capacity,” NBC Sports President Rick Cordella informed The Times.

Western Conference followers ought to recognize NBC’s strategy to its “Coast 2 Coast Tuesday” telecasts beginning Oct. 28. In most weeks, NBC TV stations within the Western and Mountain time zones will get their very own video games in prime time at 8 p.m., fairly than a 5 p.m. begin time for an East Coast contest.

Cordella famous that having having separate prime time video games in two areas will assist enhance rankings as extra folks might be out there to observe in these hours. Fans throughout the nation will be capable of stream each video games on Peacock irrespective of the place they dwell.

A brand new house for ‘Inside the NBA’

ESPN retained its bundle of normal season video games, playoffs and the NBA Finals. But probably the most anticipated factor of its protection this season would be the arrival of “Inside the NBA,” airing earlier than and after chosen video games on ESPN and ABC.

When TNT misplaced the rights to the NBA, followers of the unfiltered gabfest with Ernie Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith had been despondent over the opportunity of its demise after 36 years. ESPN reached an settlement with TNT to proceed producing this system in alternate for a bundle of faculty soccer video games.

Starting with a doubleheader Wednesday, “Inside the NBA” will air for an hour earlier than chosen video games on ESPN and a half-hour forward of ABC telecasts.

Postgame editions might be open-ended on ESPN whereas ABC will run a half-hour after which proceed on the ESPN app. The program will air on 20 dates through the common season and all through the NBA Playoffs, together with the Eastern Conference Finals and the NBA Finals.

Tim Corrigan, senior vp of sports activities manufacturing for ESPN, stated in a latest information convention that nothing will change on this system outdoors of it being on a brand new community. Along with the hosts, the graphics, the music and the angle will stay the identical and can nonetheless be produced at TNT Sports’ studios in Atlanta with its longtime manufacturing group.

“We want them to do their show,” Corrigan stated.

All of the video games on ESPN and ABC can be found on ESPN’s not too long ago launched direct-to-consumer streaming service out there to followers who don’t have a pay TV subscription.

NBA involves Prime Video

Amazon is the brand new child on the block, with 67 NBA video games completely on the Prime Video streaming platform beginning with a doubleheader Friday.

The streamer will carry each sport within the knockout spherical of the Emirates NBA Cup, the postseason SoFi Play-In Tournament and first- and second-round playoff video games. Prime may even carry two worldwide NBA video games this yr and deal with the convention finals in six of the subsequent 11 seasons.

Prime developed a lot of on-screen options for its “Thursday Night Football” protection, and viewers can count on the identical for the NBA, the place followers can entry pivotal moments within the sport or get a speedy recap in the event that they tune in late.

Fans who subscribe to NBA League Pass, a streaming platform that gives entry to out-of-market video games, can hyperlink the service to Prime Video to observe a number of video games directly on the identical display.

Prime Video can be teaming with the web sportsbook app FanDuel, giving bettors the power to trace the progress of their wagers whereas watching a sport. (FanDuel is just not out there to make use of in California.)