The 2025-26 NBA season is the first of the newly agreed upon 11-year media rights deals, which means that there are some changes to how fans will be able to access and watch games.
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Here’s everything you need to know:
- NBC/Peacock: Tuesday’s opening night doubleheader (Thunder vs. Rockets and Lakers vs. Warriors) kicks off the season for one of the NBA’s new (er, old?) media partners. For the first time since, 2002, the NBA will return to NBC. One hundred regular-season games as well as games throughout the playoffs and the NBA’s All-Star events will be broadcast by NBC and Peacock (NBC’s streaming platform).
- Prime Video: The other new media partner for the NBA is Prime Video (Amazon’s streaming platform). Prime will broadcast 66 regular-season games, a number of NBA Cup games, and will be the exclusive home for all six games of the Play-In Tournament. Prime will also carry some of the postseason games.
- ESPN/ABC: No change here. ESPN and ABC remain a mainstay for the NBA throughout the regular season and the playoffs and are still the way to watch games on Christmas Day as well as the exclusive home for the NBA Finals.
- NBA League Pass: This is still the league’s streaming platform where fans can watch games that are not nationally broadcast or blacked out due to local rules.
- KJZZ: The Utah Jazz are only slated to have two nationally televised games this season (that’s what happens when the team is not good). But KJZZ is still the local carrier for all Jazz games and SEG+ is the streaming platform that comes directly from the Jazz and Mammoth.