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 volition bring NBA and WNBA games to the streaming work starting with the 2025-2026 season. Prime Video volition 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 volition support immoderate games connected the 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 the rights, with Disney paying $2.62 cardinal annually, Comcast paying $2.45 billion, and Amazon paying $1.93 billion.

The woody represents a large displacement toward bringing sports to streaming, arsenic the NBA has partnered with Warner Bros. Discovery to aerial its games connected TNT for astir 40 years. In a connection to ESPN, the NBA said Warner Bros. Disocvery’s connection “did not lucifer the presumption of Amazon Prime Video’s offer.”

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

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

“Over the past fewer years, we person worked hard to bring the precise champion of sports to Prime Video and to proceed to innovate connected the viewing experience,” Jay Marine, the planetary caput of sports astatine Prime Video says successful a property release. “We are grateful to spouse with the NBA, and can’t hold to tip-off successful 2025.”