It was only a matter of time before it happened, but NBC has finally confirmed that Noah Eagle will be one of the lead announcers for the highly anticipated return of the NBA on NBC next season.
Eagle is one of the rising stars in the industry and at just 28 years old has already positioned himself as one of the most popular and most acclaimed play-by-play voices working today. It doesn’t matter whether it’s football, basketball, or anything in between, he has done fantastic work wherever he has gone.
In the announcement from NBC, the network says that Noah Eagle will call games for the NBA on NBC working “one or more games per week beginning this fall” and that he will also call Big Ten Saturday Night basketball games on Peacock.
This comes in addition to his work calling NBC’s primetime Big Ten football package and his cameos calling NFL games for the network.
Emmy Award-winning sportscaster Noah Eagle will serve as one of NBC Sports’ play-by-play voices when its coverage of the NBA begins in October 2025 across NBC and Peacock. He is expected to work one or more games per week beginning this fall in addition to handling play-by-play for Big Ten Saturday Night.
Since joining NBC Sports in 2023, Eagle has served as a play-by-play voice on numerous high-profile events, including Team USA men’s and women’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics; Big Ten Saturday Night, the weekly primetime Big Ten Football game on NBC and Peacock; and Big Ten men’s basketball on Peacock. He’s also called an NFL Wild Card game and regular season NFL games for NBC and Peacock, along with Nickelodeon’s telecast of Super Bowl LVIII.
Noah Eagle will likely serve as the NBA on NBC’s #2 play-by-play announcer behind Mike Tirico, which should still give him plenty of high profile games throughout the course of the regular season and NBA Playoffs.
The only question now is who will be his broadcast partner and what NBC decides to do with their main broadcast teams. Mike Tirico and Reggie Miller are entrenched as what looks to be the #1 team for the NBA on NBC. Will Jamal Crawford, also destined for the network, work alongside them as a lead trio in the broadcast booth or will he work with Eagle on the second team?
The answer to that question probably comes down to whether or not NBC can come to a full-time deal with Dwyane Wade, who shined alongside Noah Eagle at the Olympics in Paris last summer. An ideal scenario would see Wade and Eagle continue that work together while Crawford works with Tirico and Miller. But if that doesn’t happen, at least the NBA on NBC should still be set for some time to come with two top announcing tandems.
