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Inside the NBA' on ESPN, explained: What to know about future of Shaq, Charles Barkley and the cast after TNT
Starting with the 2025-2026 season, the 21-time Emmy-winning program "Inside the NBA" is broadcasting on ESPN and ABC. TNT Sports, the network that lost its game rights, reached a rare licensing agreement with ESPN to carry the show.
A look at the new NBA television landscape, and what to expect as NBC, Peacock and Amazon Prime join ABC and ESPN as rights-holders.
Fans tuning into the NBA this season will have to adjust their viewing habits to new networks and a seven-day-a-week national TV schedule.
Inside The NBA has long held center stage and has remained unchanged for many years. ESPN rotates analysts pretty regularly and long had a set-in-stone broadcast team. Those will still be around this season, but the NBC and Prime Video rosters will have fresh faces.
NBC is returning to the sport after decades on the sideline, and streaming power player Amazon is joining the fray as key placements sell out.
The new NBA season is here and with it comes a new-look broadcast schedule. The 2025-26 season is the first under the NBA's new media-rights deal that marks an end of the NBA on TNT and the return of games on NBC.
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Alaa Abdelnaby back calling Sixers games on NBC Sports Philadelphia as the NBA adds NBC and Amazon
Abdelnaby, the former Duke standout and NBA player, is entering his 10th season calling Sixers games (and his fifth alongside Scott). He was hired in the middle of “The Process,” but despite the Sixers losing 72 games during his first season, last season was his most difficult as a broadcaster.
ESPN has confirmed a 20-episode Inside the NBA schedule for the 2025–26 season, with Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Shaquille O'Neal being relegated to their original roles.
The NBA is launching a new multi-platform streaming offering and the reimagined NBA TV, which will offer live basketball games, highlights and original programming, starting Wednesday.
But that all changes Tuesday night with the start to the NBA season, with the Thunder hosting the Rockets and newly acquired assassin Kevin Durant -- all set to the tune of “Roundball Rock.” Sources tell SBJ that Commissioner Adam Silver and NBC Sports President Rick Cordella will take in part of the game together in Oklahoma City.
The swift rise and disappointing decline of Chris Webber as an NBA game analyst at TNT Sports was one of the defining stories of basketball media this century. Now, Webber is back at the network as part of its college basketball coverage.