Report: NBA Agrees to New Media-Rights Deal, ESPN, Amazon Prime Video, NBC & Peacock to Stream
After months of negotiations, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has found a new home beginning with the 2025-26 season. According to a report by Andrew Marchand of the New York Times, ESPN and ABC will be joined by Amazon Prime Video and NBC as part of a new 11-year, $76 billion rights agreement. As part of the new deal, each partner is expected to pay nearly $7 billion per season to air live games.
Marchand’s sources have direct knowledge of the deal, however, TNT Sports, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery can match to keep NBA games on their networks. The report states that Amazon’s rights package would be the network that WBD CEO David Zaslav would likely target.