Turner Sports, entering its 38th consecutive year of NBA coverage, will feature a 65-game schedule during the 2021-22 NBA regular season, including a marquee Opening Night doubleheader, a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day doubleheader, regular doubleheader game coverage on Tuesdays and Thursdays (starting in January), and a prime time doubleheader to close out the regular […]
The 2021 NBA Playoffs have arrived! The following are the scheduled game start times (all times Eastern; start times subject to change), respective networks for playoff action: NBA Finals on ABC Announcers: Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson, Malika Andrews Game 1 Tuesday, July 6, 2021 @ 9:00 p.m. Milwaukee Bucks @ Phoenix Suns […]
After 66 scrimmages, 88 seeding games, one play-in, the 2020 NBA Playoffs have finally arrived! Starting August 17, sixteen teams — eight from each the Eastern and Western conferences — will begin their route for the NBA championship and the coveted Larry O’Brien trophy, to be rewarded in October. The next two months of playoff […]
All 2019-20 NBA season restart games are played across three venues at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida and will begin on July 30. Based on a competitive format approved by the NBA Board of Governors and the National Basketball Players Association, 22 teams will return to play during the 2019-20 […]
David Stern, one of the most impactful executives in sports history via his 30-year tenure as NBA commissioner, passed away Wednesday at the age of 77 as a result of a brain hemorrhage he had suffered in Manhattan back on Dec. 12. Stern was born Sep. 22, 1942 in New York City and grew up […]
The Portland Trail Blazers — with recent acquisition Carmelo Anthony — continues their six-game road swing with visits in Houston, Carmelo’s brief home last season, to face the Rockets (NBA TV, Nov. 18 8:00 PM ET), in New Orleans vs. the Pelicans (NBA TV, Nov. 19 8:00 PM ET) and in Milwaukee vs. the Bucks […]
NBA TV’s Summer League coverage – the first opportunity to see many of the NBA’s top rookies in action – will feature 50 live game telecasts in 13 days beginning Monday, July 1. The network’s schedule – including live game telecasts from all three Summer League locations – will feature the expected first look at […]
The 2019 NBA Playoffs have arrived! Starting April 13, sixteen teams — eight from each the Eastern and Western conferences — will begin their route for the NBA championship and the coveted Larry O’Brien trophy, to be rewarded in June. There will be one notable absence from this year’s playoffs: LeBron James, now part of […]
As announced on Friday, Aug. 10, the 2018-19 NBA regular season will commence on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018 and runs through to Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2019. Among the league’s national broadcast partners, the NBA’s own network NBA-TV leads with carriage of 107 games. ESPN is scheduled for 84 games, mostly with coverage on Wednesday and […]
