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ESPN and TNT retained the rights to show NBA games for the next nine years in a new deal announced Monday.
The deal takes effect starting with the 2016-17 season and increases ESPN's television, digital, highlights, data, audio and international NBA rights. Games will continue to air on ESPN and TNT through the 2024-25 season. The announcement was made by NBA commissioner Adam Silver and ESPN president John Skipper.
ABC will remain the exclusive network for the NBA Finals and both ESPN and ABC will combine for up to 44 postseason games, including the conference finals. ESPN will continue to air the draft, draft combine and draft lottery."
D-League and Summer league will be on national tv and a awards show at the end of the season on TNT
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11...deals-espn-tnt
That would allow for players like Lebron could get $30 per, $150 million over 5 years
Last edited by cd021; 10-06-2014 at 11:08 AM.
Should be great for the NBA. More access, more nationally televised games. More teams spending money & keeping players. Only big concern is the upcoming CBA. Owners worked the players over pretty good last time with a lot of grandstanding on "losing money". Can't do that now.
Although ABC/ESPN has gotten better, it would have been nice if TNT carried the Finals.
Since the deal is known now, hopefully the league increaes the cap next summer beyond what it otherwise would have been so that the jump from 2015 to 2016 isn't so big.
That or introduce a rolling average rule so that the cap is based on an average of the previous 3 to 5 years of BRI. This also means the cap wouldn't crash if somehow a new TV deal down the road is much smaller than anticipated.
Expect the owners to throw a few crumbs into the CBA, but basically the players will get screwed.
No it wouldn't have. Reggie Miller doing color? Shaq's re ed ass at halftime? TNT sucks now. ABC is so much better even with Mark Jackson back.
Mark Jackson is clearly a Boris fan so he's okay in my book tbh. Dont even mind the "hand down man down".
Anyone know if they are ending the blackout restrictions as part of the deal?
I prefer Albert's "Yes" to Breen's "Bang", but I get what you mean about Miller. I like JVG, but don't care at all for Jackson.
Shaq says some dumb things at times, but TNT studio team of Ernie/Shaq/Kenny/Charles is still much better than Sage/Jalen/Bill/Doug.
LeBron is worth it, but Melo, Harden, Howard, Kobe arent
Great news for Timmy! Yes I'm serious.
Miss the NBA on NBC days
I loved those sunday tripleheaders after football season was over.Miss the NBA on NBC days
FCC votes to end sports blackout rule over NFL's objection
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...930-story.html
This shouldn't change the next CBA much in favor of the players considering half the NBA arena's resemble graveyards during the regular season.
That's academic. With their TV deal, the NBA could survive zero attendance.
Saw that (thanks) but was more wondering when the blackout would be lifted. Would be nice to stream games here in Austin rather than pretending to be Indian (dot not feather).
NBC Sports sucks as sports coverage with other sports..... Glad nbc will stay out as they have the dumbest announcers
Det Kawhi pricetag gonna look pretty different now
Agreed. Some of those non-franchise guys were max players simply because the max was so low. Durant will get the max, but he's probably not worth it either. It will inch up with the bad contracts the owners insist on signing undeserving players to until you have 30 guys making that kind of money.
Since they've got the cash to throw around, Disney should buy the John Tesh song from NBC.Miss the NBA on NBC days
32 PPG, 7.4 REB, 5.5 AST on 50% shooting with 39% from the three is pretty easily worth $26 million. He didn't let his team down in the WCF; he got beaten by the best team since possibly the 08 Celtics.
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