Indiana Pacers Partner With DAZN As New Streaming Home For Games

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - FEBRUARY 03: A item position of the Indiana Pacers logo aft the crippled against the Utah Jazz astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse connected February 03, 2026 successful Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Bobby Goddin/Getty Images)

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INDIANAPOLIS – DAZN (pronounced Da-Zone) is the caller streaming location for Indiana Pacers basketball.

The Pacers announced the business connected Thursday morning, providing answers to fans who wondered wherever to watch the squad this season. Main Street Sports Group, who owned the erstwhile broadcast for the team, is officially winding down. The Pacers needed a caller partner and picked DAZN complete astir a twelve options.

“This business is astir making Pacers hoops much accessible than ever before,” Pacers Sports & Entertainment President and CEO of Pacers Sports & Entertainment Mel Raines said successful a statement.

Accessibility was a awesome talking constituent connected Wednesday arsenic the Pacers explained their determination to watercourse games connected DAZN. Chief Commercial Officer Joey Graziano elaborate that successful 2010, successful the premier of cable, astir 88% of their marketplace had entree to paid television. Now? That’s down to astir 30%. That signals to Graziano that fans are accessing their lives overmuch much via the internet, truthful putting the Pacers chiefly location felt for illustration the champion measurement to scope fans.

“Having thing that felt accessible crossed a assortment of different modes and channels,” he said. “And truthful that intends your phone, that besides whitethorn mean the tablet that you have, it whitethorn mean your gaming console, it whitethorn mean your smart television. And we wanted thing that would meet our fans precisely wherever they are.”

In the first twelvemonth of the business betwixt DAZN and the Pacers, 22 games and 4 preseason outings will beryllium streamed for free connected the DAZN app. 15 of those 22 games will besides aerial connected a section over-the-air broadcast partner, which will beryllium wished good earlier the play begins. That woody will beryllium made betwixt the air-the-air partner and DAZN.

The Pacers, and different NBA teams that yet extremity up streaming connected DAZN, will person their ain hub correct successful the DAZN app. That’s wherever fans tin motion up and watercourse games. Pacers connected DAZN will motorboat later this summertime anterior to the 2026-27 NBA season.

DAZN will connection a seven-day free proceedings arsenic good arsenic an Early Bird Season Pass – that will travel pinch a value tag of $59.99 and will unlock each paid game. Once that typical ends, the value of the Pacers situation will beryllium $119.99 for the twelvemonth aliases $19.99 per month.

“With [Tyrese Haliburton] coming back, the commencement of our play is going to beryllium beautiful anticipated,” Graziano said of the free trial. “We wanted to make judge that that was going to beryllium available.”

Graziano besides made statement of the value points and that pinch the Early Bird Season Pass, it’s astir $1 per game. A batch of thought went into the pricing model, thing that DAZN has acquisition pinch because of their wide assortment of offerings.

“Things are nuanced from a market-by-market perspective, but [we] put a batch of definite investigation utilizing information we person connected capacity crossed the committee and different benignant of akin scenarios,” DAZN Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development Zander Berlinski said of the pricing choices. He expects the value to stay akin successful early years arsenic good but acknowledged that they will measure what did and didn’t activity for fans aft the first season. The 15 over-the-air games will stay beyond 2026-27.

By going pinch the streaming route, the Pacers tin easy scope fans wrong their section bubble successful caller ways. Their location tv territory includes Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. Fans successful that area will beryllium capable to watch the squad done the DAZN app.

DAZN is simply a digital-first company, and they person nary cablegram integration plans pinch the Pacers astatine this time. Their 15 over-the-air games will beryllium disposable connected linear television, and the Pacers are alert of the challenges that whitethorn travel pinch that.

“Of people we’re concerned astir it. We’re concerned astir each of our fans, and we’re going to beryllium incredibly responsive to immoderate concerns that travel astir for that,” Graziano said erstwhile asked what the team’s older fans mightiness opportunity astir this partnership. He past pointed to DAZN’s 24/7 tech support arsenic a resource. “We’re going to beryllium responsible for each of those fans. And truthful we’ve sewage surely thoughts to deliberation about, really do we make judge that those fans are capable to download the app to beryllium capable to get it onto their devices? We’ve sewage an full trading and integer squad who’s hyper-focused connected instrumentality feedback that comes from our property release, and we will beryllium responsive to fans who person concerns astir their expertise to beryllium capable to access.”

The woody betwixt the Pacers and DAZN is 5 years successful length, but the NBA required teams to person a imaginable retired successful their broadcast contracts successful lawsuit an aggregated solution pinch each squad were to arise. “When we were looking astatine partners, 1 of the things we wanted to do was… to find personification who we thought could beryllium what the convention refers to arsenic their aggregated solution, wherever you would aggregate each the teams,” Raines said. “And DAZN is surely a apical imaginable partner that’s been successful the news for that.”

DAZN has a monolithic world footprint – 300 cardinal users, according to Berlinski – pinch astir 85% of them coming internationally. They are hoping to move into much U.S. markets and person already secured streaming deals with respective New York sports teams and the Minnesota Timberwolves, pinch much NBA announcements yet to come.

Some NBA teams person opted to broadcast their games exclusively over-the-air. There were challenges for the Pacers that kept them from choosing that route.

“Some markets person the opportunity pinch a Scripps aliases a Gray to person an quiet transmission that’s already bought into the little tier of Comcast aliases Spectrum aliases those kinds of channels – DirecTV, Dish. That’s not disposable successful our marketplace correct now. As you know, there’s been a batch of consolidation,” Raines explained. “And truthful unfortunately, we didn’t person that opportunity. But frankly, we wouldn’t person reached… As galore people. And truthful our extremity present is to make everyone a fan. We person a institution mission.” Accessibility is simply a large portion of that mission.

The Pacers broadcast squad of Jeremiah Johnson, Chris Denari, Quinn Buckner, and Eddie Gill will return and telephone games successful the coming season, which originates successful astir 2 months. And for the Pacers, it will statesman connected a caller streaming home.

“Local sports broadcasting has evolved importantly complete the past decade and truthful has the measurement group watch games,” Raines said. “DAZN is simply a world leader successful sports streaming, and its premium viewing acquisition gives our fans much elasticity and affordable entree to Pacers basketball, while creating much opportunities to link pinch the team.”