The NBA on NBC makes its long-awaited return next season and is slowly filling out their talent roster. The next name is one of the biggest stars of the modern era in Carmelo Anthony.
The 2025 nominee for the Basketball Hall of Fame won a national championship at Syracuse and then went on to have a stellar NBA career. Although his accomplishments didn’t quite match those of his fellow rookie class in Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, that takes nothing away from what he did achieve during a 19 year NBA career.
Carmelo Anthony was a 10-time All-Star and 6-time All-NBA performer with the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks and sits 10th on the NBA all-time scoring list.
And now he will take those years of expertise to NBC where he will work as a studio analyst for the network according to Andrew Marchand at The Athletic.
It’ll be fascinating to see what insights we see from Carmelo Anthony in studio. Much like Amazon with their hires of Dirk Nowitzki and Blake Griffin, NBC is going with something new and fresh in this hire and it’s a welcome development given there aren’t that many people who played in the 2010s and 2020s actively covering the league at the moment.
Carmelo Anthony is the first piece named or reported for NBC’s studio coverage. So far we know that Mike Tirico, Reggie Miller, and Jamal Crawford will likely form the network’s lead broadcast booth. Noah Eagle will also be a top play-by-play voice and it would be surprising if he wasn’t joined by Dwyane Wade after their great work during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
NBC does already have a potential studio host in Maria Taylor and Jalen Rose was hired to cover college basketball, but he could easily slide over and cover the pro game as well. If those are the potential building blocks for the return of the NBA on NBC, the peacock network should be in relatively good hands.
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