NBA on television

The current NBA broadcasters (ESPN, ABC, NBC, Peacock, and Amazon Prime Video), arranged in order by the year each network began their broadcasts.

National Basketball Association (NBA) games are televised nationally in the United States, as well as on multiple local channels and regional sports networks.

The 2025–26 season marks the first year of 11-year agreements with broadcast channels ABC and NBC, pay television network ESPN, and streaming services Peacock and Amazon Prime Video to nationally televise games in the United States. Under these contracts, ESPN shows doubleheaders on Wednesday nights, and Amazon Prime Video streams games on Friday nights for most of the season. NBC airs a Tuesday night doubleheader to be shown across different NBC stations (under the branding Coast 2 Coast Tuesday). The first is scheduled at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (on NBC stations using Eastern and Central Time Zones) and a second game is scheduled at 8 p.m. Pacific Time (on stations using Mountain and Pacific Time Zones). In addition to streaming all games broadcast by NBC, Peacock also streams at least one game exclusively on the streamer (under the branding Peacock NBA Monday), which is also simulcasted on NBCSN. During the second half of the season, ABC shows a single game on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons, whereas Prime Video streams Thursday night games and NBC airs Sunday night games (under the branding Sunday Night Basketball). Prime Video also streams selected Saturday afternoon games, while ESPN airs games on selected Friday nights. There are some exceptions to this schedule, including Tip-off Week, Christmas Day, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. More games may be shown as the end of the regular season approaches, particularly games with playoff significance. Coverage of the first two rounds is split between ABC/ESPN, NBC/Peacock, and Amazon Prime Video, while the conference finals alternates between these platforms every year. The entire NBA Finals is shown nationally on ABC. The NBA Finals is one of the few sporting events to be shown on a national broadcast network on a weeknight.

Games not televised by its national partners are instead broadcast by local broadcast stations and regional sports networks, televising their respective local team within their respective region. A number of nationally televised games are also non-exclusive, meaning that the national telecasts may also air in tandem with those of the game by local broadcasters. With the Toronto Raptors being the only NBA team in Canada, television rights differ in that country. Games exclusively televised south of the border by an American national broadcast network may be simulcast by a Canadian network, but all contests involving the Raptors are non-exclusive north of the border.

In addition to the English-language television broadcasts, select NBA games also have Spanish-language broadcasts since 2002.


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