NFT: NBA closing in on deals with Disney, NBC & Amazon

good riddance

From Fox, who use it for their college basketball package..

In comment 16521968 nygiants16 said:

Quote:

good riddance

I'll miss NBA on TNT...particularly Inside the NBA. Far superior product to the crap ABC/ESPN pushes. Preferred TNT announcers, too.

Guess NBC makes a run at Charles Barkley. No Ernie. Wonder if Shaq and Kenny's contracts expire after next season.

In comment 16521979 DCGMan said:

Quote:

In comment 16521968 nygiants16 said: Quote: good riddance I'll miss NBA on TNT...particularly Inside the NBA. Far superior product to the crap ABC/ESPN pushes. Preferred TNT announcers, too. Guess NBC makes a run at Charles Barkley. No Ernie. Wonder if Shaq and Kenny's contracts expire after next season.

They wont bring any of them on, that show was unbearable towards the end, none of them actually watch basketball

In comment 16521978 The_Boss said:

Quote:

From Fox, who use it for their college basketball package..

Supposedly part of the deal was them bringing back the old theme but its going to be tweaked a little bit

In comment 16521968 nygiants16 said:

Quote:

good riddance

Amen. Even the studio show is past its expiration date.

will be interesting - back in the day it was Marv and Fratello as their #1 team with Costas in the studio. Also, had Bill Walton and Hammond.

I'd imagine Mike Trico would be the top candidate to be the lead announcer and they would poach some TNT guys to be analysts.

Who are some smart players who recently retired? Give Andre Iguodala a microphone and see how he does. Maybe one of the old Spurs players. What’s Steve Nash up to these days? Anyone but Reggie Miller, please.

I don't think anyone but Ernie actually watches the games. The hot take for ratings needs to stop and follow what the NFL does with their halftime and pre-game instead of the garbage the NBA pushes out there.

.

In comment 16521968 nygiants16 said:

Quote:

good riddance

Please tell me that means Jefferson goes away

I haven't been in love with NBA basketball the way I am today since I was a kid in the last 80s/90s. I am really looking forward to a reboot in the national exposure.

is unwatchable to me, not sure why people like it. Granted EJ is a class act, but Shaq does not watch any basketball and pretty much growls when he speaks.

Kenny Smith is ok, but nothing special.

Charles Barkley speaks out of both sides of his mouth and always seems to have an agenda with what he says.

Give me an old fashioned studio show with a good lead guy, an articulate analyst, who can remain neutral and some sort of insider. It would not shock me to see Shams end up on NBC.

But Barkley and Shaq were awful and I hope none of the new NBA networks hire them. Kenny Smith is a bit better.

Shaq and Barkley were lazy and just spewed nonsense without much analysis or technical understanding.

Besides, they both always seemed to be anti-Knicks.

I agree they don't really watch the games besides Ernie and maybe Kenny, but damn that show had some classic moments. Way better than any other NBA/NFL/MLB post-game/halftime studio show by a mile imo despite their flaws.

I hope they don't tweak the NBC theme too much, just leave it alone please.

Real analysts who talk about the game and different adjustments and schemes rather then a bunch of goofy dudes laughing at dumb jokes.

Over Perkins and Steph A every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

with them bringing back Costas as the lead, Give me Jeff Van Gundy as the in studio analyst and Shams as the insider.

but it’s been reported the NBA pressured ABC to dump him because he was critical of the officials - not sure NBC would start the relationship off on the wrong foot by hiring him.

In comment 16522182 bceagle05 said:

Quote:

but it’s been reported the NBA pressured ABC to dump him because he was critical of the officials - not sure NBC would start the relationship off on the wrong foot by hiring him.

If that is the case, you are probably right. Someone in that ilk, that is entertaining, but can really break down the game. Bob Myers is not bad among the clown show on ESPN. I do think NBC will go after Shams though.

In comment 16522166 JT039 said:

Quote:

Over Perkins and Steph A every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Bingo. ESPN's coverage of the NBA is terrible. All you have to do is listen to Ramona Shelbourne try to justify to Kendrick Perkins why Bronny deserves the amount of air time he has received over his draft status. For a player that averaged 4.5 points her game.

but ESPN is several orders of magnitude worse, and I shudder to think how much worse it could get over the next decade. And who knows if NBC will take a measured approach or just hire more hot-takers?

Still, I look forward to the return of B-B-B-B-B-BASKETBALL!

The original "Roundball Rock"

The NBA getting $7B per year for media rights will likely lock in 10% cap growth (that is the max the cap can go up) per season starting in 2025-26.

If so, the cap will top $200M in the 2028-29 season. A 35% max salary that year projects to be $72M.

The fifth-year salary on that max deal? $95M.

Total value of that max deal? Five years, $419M.