New NBA Media Deal: 11 years, $77B with Disney (ABC/ESPN), Comcast (NBC/Peacock), and Amazon. ESPN to license Inside the NBA

[CHICAGO]

The NBA needs to exert some level of quality and control over Disney if they're getting the main package again. Their coverage is embarrassing and quite frankly, unprofessional.

EXACTLY.

shyt IS BUSH LEAGUE AS fukk.

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[puggle]

ESPN doesn't truly care about any other sport other than NFL and in recent years, college football. Look at how they treat baseball every season

It sucks, the NBA on NBC games felt like genuine events and I don't think it's just nostalgia talking.

 

[OG Talk]

Anywhere but ESPN

 

[KnickstapeCity]

I'm fine with apple and NBC getting in the NBA business. apple has the best picture quality of all the streaming services and the NBC has a great history with the NBA from the 90's.

I DON'T want amazon to get it because I HATE watching sports in the prime app. I cannot flip channels like I currently do on YTTV. plus amazon doesn't offer multiview like apple/ESPN/TNT

You’re one technologically savvy geriatric son of a bytch.

 

[charknicks]

For all of us who want the NBA back on NBC, its 100% nostalgia, however, it is time for a change in the presentation, cause ESPN's coverage of the NBA is terrible. Silver does need to require better in the next deal. (NBA was on NBC from 1990-2002)

When NHL games are on, they get a good 10 minutes of actual discussion in the studio between periods. No reason why the NBA doesnt have that.

I would love to have games back on NBC, but NBC has heavy golf coverage on Sunday afternoons (partnership with Golf channel), so that will play a part. Unless they could carve out a Sunday night Basketball package ( to mirror Sunday night Football)

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

It's games on tonight?

 

[Avisible Man]

It sucks, the NBA on NBC games felt like genuine events and I don't think it's just nostalgia talking.

For all of us who want the NBA back on NBC, its 100% nostalgia

It's nostalgia in terms of wanting the "NBA on NBC," but it's not nostalgia when it comes to the NBC broadcast and the gravitas that lends to a sporting event. When an NFL game is on NBC, you know it's a big game. The presentation is the best in the business. The camera work and quality is the best. The music is the best, thanks in large part to the theme by John Williams. There's a reason why Amazon has NBC produce their games for Thursday Night Football.

This gravitas was also there with hockey. I don't watch hockey but even I could tell that NHL games on NBC were big games. The orchestral musical score combined with the urgency of the commentary really built great hype even for regular season games, which is not what ESPN is providing for NBA games.

 

[FAH1223]

It's nostalgia in terms of wanting the "NBA on NBC," but it's not nostalgia when it comes to the NBC broadcast and the gravitas that lends to a sporting event. When an NFL game is on NBC, you know it's a big game. The presentation is the best in the business. The camera work and quality is the best. The music is the best, thanks in large part to the theme by John Williams. There's a reason why Amazon has NBC produce their games for Thursday Night Football.

This gravitas was also there with hockey. I don't watch hockey but even I could tell that NHL games on NBC were big games. The orchestral musical score combined with the urgency of the commentary really built great hype even for regular season games, which is not what ESPN is providing for NBA games.

 

[Left.A1]

I don’t see why it’s either NBC or TNT

Why wouldn’t Adam Silver want 3 deals? And then another with a streamer?

That’s more money for the league

The money being offered probably hinges on getting more product. I cant imagine Silver intentionally shorting the league from revenue if he thought more broadcasting partners meant a healthier bottom line.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Left.A1]

NBA about to get paid.

Never was in doubt. It was always going to be a bidding war in the end. nikkas babbling about ratings

 

[K-Apps]

 

[puggle]

It seems like Zaslav got caught sleeping at the wheel a bit according to the article, he needs live sports to sell that service he’s doing with Fox and ESPN.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Nice, making the games even more less visible

Woat commissioner

 

[tremonthustler1]

The NBA needs to exert some level of quality and control over Disney if they're getting the main package again. Their coverage is embarrassing and quite frankly, unprofessional.

if they can't demand this of their own network, they can't reasonably expect that from other network partners and they can't do that because the NBA deep down thinks the coverage is done how you'd prefer it.