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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]
NBA Tonight was an National Basketball Association studio program that aired on ESPN. The program used to air as part of ESPN's The Trifecta. Formerly known as NBA 2Night and NBA Fastbreak, the program, hosted by various ESPN personalities, provided highlights, analysis and updates from the night's NBA games. Segments include "3Ds", which looks ...
The following people were commentators for ESPN's NBA coverage: Adam Amin (play by play 2016–2020) Greg Anthony (analyst) Michelle Beadle (studio host 2014–2019) Chauncey Billups (analyst 2018–2020) Rick Carlisle (game analyst 2007–2008) Doug Collins (basketball analyst 2014–2017) Ariel Helwani (sidleine reporter 2019–2021)
On October 6, 2014, NBA announced a nine-year $24 billion ($2.7 billion/year) extension with ABC, ESPN, and Turner beginning with the 2016–17 season and running through the 2024–25 season [6] - the second most expensive media rights in the world after NFL and on a par with Premier League in annual rights fee from 2016–17 to 2018–19 season.
The NBA on ESPN is the branding used for the presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) games on the ESPN family of networks. The ESPN cable network first televised NBA games from 1982 until 1984, and has been airing games currently since the 2002–03 NBA season. ESPN2 began airing a limited schedule of NBA games in 2002.
Notably, this is the first time that both ESPN and ABC have used the full 16:9 frame for their graphics in the network's NBA coverage. Starting with Saturday Primetime in 2017, live NBA game action no longer shows the ESPN identification on the screen. Previously under ESPN on ABC (since 2006–07), the ESPN logo was part of the score banner ...
NBA play-in tournament: ESPN 2020–2025 ABC aired lone play-in game in 2020. Since 2021: Two of the four 9–10 seeded games; Exclusive Eastern Conference No. 8 seed game (even-numbered years) Exclusive Western Conference No. 8 seed game (odd-numbered years) Full rights moving to Amazon Prime Video in 2026 [55] [56] [57] [51] NBA playoffs: ABC ...
The 2019–20 NBA season was the 74th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The regular season began on October 22, 2019, and originally was supposed to end on April 15, 2020. The 2020 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 16, at the United Center in Chicago, and was won by Team LeBron, 157–155. The playoffs were originally ...