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NBA regular-season viewership up 16% in first year of new TV deals
NBA telecasts averaged 1.78 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, NBC, Peacock, and Prime Video.
Don’t hold your breath for a Doc Rivers ESPN return
Rivers dipped on ESPN midway through the 2023-24 season after being hired as its lead NBA game analyst.
Jay Bilas reportedly stepping into Michael Malone’s role on ESPN’s NBA playoff coverage
Bilas will call at least three or four games this postseason.
NBA releases first-round playoff schedule in first year of new media rights deal
The NBA announced its first-round Game 1 schedule with eight matchups across ABC, NBC/Peacock, and Amazon Prime Video.
Mike Breen sounds off on first-round NBA playoff games being exclusive to national TV
"It's a poor decision... I just think the fans deserve to be thrown a bone once in a while."
Charles Barkley rips players ‘sipping margaritas,’ complaining about 65-game rule
“Y'all vote in the collective bargaining, and now you want to complain."
Mark Jones has emotional sign-off alongside Doris Burke after 36 years with ESPN
Doris Burke was very emotional in the final ESPN broadcast of her longtime NBA broadcast partner, Mark Jones.
Mark Jones plans to stay with Kings ‘a long, long time’ after leaving ESPN
Jones told the Sacramento Bee he isn't going anywhere, even if his future role with the Kings isn't fully defined yet.
With Michael Malone headed to UNC, ESPN again searching for NBA coverage answers
Stephen A. Smith implores Mike Breen not to ‘give passes’ to Knicks brass as fans demand Finals appearance
"We haven't won a championship since 1973 ... and you're telling us, 'You've gotta remember the bad seasons that you had before Leon Rose.'"
Brian Windhorst is becoming the NBA’s unofficial ombudsman
Jeremy Lin shines in Luka Dončić breakdown on ESPN’s ‘NBA Today’
Lin dazzled in an NBA Today segment on Luka Dončić.
Richard Jefferson on Mike Breen: ‘I’m so glad that the sport that changed my life is in this man’s hands’
"He handles it with such care, such respect, such responsibility."
Shaquille O’Neal didn’t even pretend to know who Baylor Scheierman was: ‘Who he play for?’
"I don't even know who this kid is."
NBA ‘in talks’ with YouTube TV, Amazon, ESPN, DAZN to become local broadcast hub next season
YouTube TV and DAZN have been particularly aggressive in pursuing the package.
ESPN’s top NBA booth is better than it was
12.5-minute buzzer derailed Donovan Mitchell interview, ESPN’s Pistons-Cavs broadcast
"Good luck navigating this horn the rest of the way..."
Jalen Rose returning to ESPN airwaves on Friday as ‘Inside the NBA’ fill-in
Rose was laid off in 2023 after a long run at the Worldwide Leader.
NBA viewership entering All-Star break highest since 2018
The league has averaged 1.8 million viewers per game across NBC, ESPN/ABC, and Prime Video.
NBA team told ESPN’s Bobby Marks they’d write a blank check to cover fines for a Top 3 pick
"This is the system that the NBA has created."
ESPN considered favorite for Chris Paul if he pursues broadcasting, per report
Paul is available to start broadcasting immediately.
Charles Barkley implores Colin Cowherd to ‘shut the hell up’ about ESPN’s ‘Inside the NBA’ scheduling
"This was already planned months and months ago. All I said was I would like to work more."
Colin Cowherd accuses ESPN of intentionally burying ‘Inside the NBA’ for Adam Silver
"It felt very, very big at one time and now it’s invisible."
Charles Barkley laments ESPN not working him enough
"I wish we had been on more during the first half of the season"
