NBA settles with WBD as it prepares to stream games on Amazon in 2025

The NBA has reached an 11-year statement with Warner Bros. Discovery that volition proceed the improvement of contented similar Inside the NBA, which volition look connected ABC and ESPN. The colony comes months aft Warner Bros. Discovery sued the NBA for dropping TNT’s licensing package.

In July, the NBA chose licensing deals with Amazon’s Prime Video, Disney, and NBCUniversal implicit TNT. This resulted successful a suit from Warner Bros. Discovery that accused the NBA of breach of contract. During the 2025-2026 season, dozens of the NBA’s regular-season and playoff games volition watercourse connected Prime Video service, portion immoderate games volition inactive look connected ESPN, ABC, and NBC.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s colony includes the item rights to NBA games, which it tin usage to nutrient contented for TNT Sports, the Bleacher Report, and House of Highlights. “We are pleased to spouse with the NBA and Disney/ESPN, and to person solidified semipermanent rights and gross for WBD,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said successful the property release.

In summation to its statement with the NBA, Warner Bros. Discovery besides struck a woody with ESPN — 1 of its partners successful the Venu sports streaming service, which a national tribunal blocked. — that volition enactment 15 unrecorded assemblage hoops games and 13 assemblage shot games each play from the Big 12 connected TNT.

Warner Bros. Discovery volition clasp unrecorded NBA rights extracurricular the US for 11 years successful the Nordics, Poland, and Latin American countries but Brazil and Mexico.