Overview
- Ernie Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith signed off the final NBA on TNT broadcast after Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals with visible emotion and gratitude.
- Under the new 11-year media rights agreement worth at least $76 billion, domestic game telecasts shift from TNT to ESPN, ABC, NBC and, for the first time, Amazon Prime Video beginning next season.
- ESPN and ABC will carry ‘Inside the NBA’ under license from Turner Sports, retaining the core cast and Atlanta production team to preserve the show’s format.
- NBC will rejoin NBA coverage with Reggie Miller as an analyst while Kevin Harlan and Stan Van Gundy move to Amazon’s commentary lineup under the new rights deal.
- Warner Bros. Discovery declined to match competing streaming bids but secured a partnership to produce NBA content and license ‘Inside the NBA’ to ESPN.