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The 2000–2001 season brought to an end to Bob Costas' direct role with the NBA on NBC (although Costas would work playoff games for the next two seasons and would return to host NBC's coverage for the 2002 NBA Finals). Costas deferred to Marv Albert, allowing Albert to again be the lead broadcaster for the NBA, and stayed on only to deliver ...
The reason for this scheduling dilemma was the fact that the NBA had opted to start the regular season earlier. Starting in the mid-1970s, the NBA had pushed back the start of the regular season, resulting in it ending increasingly later (for example, April 6 in 1975, April 11 in 1976). Before that, the regular season had always ended in late ...
After the deal expired, Sports Network Incorporated (later known as the Hughes Television Network) signed up for two-year coverage in the 1962–63 and 1963–64 season. ABC then gained the NBA in 1964, airing its first NBA game on January 3, 1965. Up until the 1970–71 season, ABC often aired NBA games as segments of its popular ABC's Wide ...
The NBA is set to tip off its 79th season with a Tuesday night doubleheader. This is the beginning of the six-month regular season, during which every team plays 82 games. The defending champion ...
The NBA, 75 years ago, was different in almost every imaginable way. The series will recall those humble beginnings, with Ossie Schectman — who scored the first basket in league history ...
On January 23–27, the league held "NBA Rivals Week" for the second consecutive season, with every nationally televised game featuring "classic and budding rivalries between teams and players". [37] On the final day of the regular season, April 14, two games with playoff implications were flexed into ESPN's afternoon doubleheader. [37] [34]
Beginning in 2025-26, the NBA will make $6.9 billion annually from national television, compared with the $2.6 billion it currently receives from ESPN and TNT Sports, which both have one year left ...
The reason for this scheduling dilemma was the fact that the NBA had opted to start the regular season earlier. Starting in the mid-1970s, the NBA had pushed back the start of the regular season, resulting in it ending increasingly later (for example, April 6 in 1975, April 11 in 1976). Prior to that, the regular season had always ended in late ...