Top 100 players of the 2025-26 NBA season
Digest more
1hon MSN
Where To Watch NBA Games Online: NBA Opening Night Start Times, Schedule, Peacock Streaming Info
For the first time since 2002, NBA basketball will air on NBC. If you were a ’90s kid, John Tesh’s iconic “Roundball Rock” was the soundtrack of your basketball-watching experience, the perfect melodic intro that remains synonymous with hoops.
The regular season tips off on Oct. 21, but fans can catch plenty of preseason action on ESPN's family of networks.
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.
4don MSN
Where will fans find NBA games on TVs or streaming devices this season? The league has an answer
Michael Jordan is back in the NBA with NBC, and a new 11-year, $76 billion TV deal is kicking in, bringing changes to the national television schedule, including a digital initiative called "Tap to Watch" to help fans find the games they want to watch.
Flagg had been the most hyped and anticipated American high school prospect since LeBron James, who was the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft more than three years before Flagg was born. James and the rest of Team USA were quite familiar with Flagg's name, if not yet his game.
Postgame editions will be open-ended on ESPN while ABC will run a half-hour and then continue on the ESPN app. The program will air on 20 dates during the regular season and throughout the NBA Playoffs, including the Eastern Conference Finals and the NBA Finals.
The NBA has new homes this season, including returning to NBC and debuting on Peacock, and this will make games easier to find.
The NBA season tips off Tuesday with the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder playing the new-look Houston Rockets. What should be a full season of LeBron James and Luka Dončić playing together with the Los Angeles Lakers will also begin against the Golden State Warriors later Tuesday night.