The NBA’s new TV deals put a lot of games on Amazon’s Prime Video starting in 2025

Amazon’s Prime Video has inked an 11-year deal that will bring NBA and WNBA games to nan streaming work starting pinch nan 2025-2026 season. Prime Video will aerial a full of 66 regular-season games and 20 playoff games each year. The league’s caller agreements besides see Disney and Comcast-owned NBC Universal, which will support immoderate games connected nan linear ESPN, ABC, and NBC channels.

They’ll aerial connected Disney’s upcoming standalone ESPN streaming service and NBC’s Peacock arsenic well. As reported by The New York Times, each 3 companies person agreed to ammunition retired billions for nan rights, pinch Disney paying $2.62 cardinal annually, Comcast paying $2.45 billion, and Amazon paying $1.93 billion.

The woody represents a awesome displacement toward bringing sports to streaming, arsenic nan NBA has collaborated pinch Warner Bros. Discovery to aerial its games connected TNT for almost 40 years. In a connection to ESPN, nan NBA said Warner Bros. Disocvery’s connection “did not lucifer nan position of Amazon Prime Video’s offer.”

The NBA will proceed to aerial games connected TNT during nan 2024-2025 play — but nan web isn’t happy astir its determination to take Prime Video. ”We deliberation [the NBA has] grossly misinterpreted our contractual authorities pinch respect to nan 2025-26 play and beyond, and we will return due action,” TNT told ESPN.

The Prime Video broadcasts will commencement pinch an opening-week doubleheader and proceed pinch Friday nighttime games, prime Saturday day games, and Thursday nighttime doubleheaders (after its Thursday Night Football schedule ends successful January 2026). Prime Video will besides aerial nan NBA Cup, Play-In Tournament, NBA League Pass, and half of nan NBA Summer League games.

“Over nan past fewer years, we person worked difficult to bring nan very champion of sports to Prime Video and to proceed to innovate connected nan viewing experience,” Jay Marine, nan world caput of sports astatine Prime Video says successful a property release. “We are grateful to partner pinch nan NBA, and can’t hold to tip-off successful 2025.”