August 2025

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NBA 2025-26 broadcast schedule, how to watch: NBC, Peacock, Prime Video join ESPN, ABC for weekly broadcasts

The NBA announced its full 2025-26 regular-season schedule on Thursday, including opening night, Thanksgiving Eve, Christmas Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day matchups. 

The season will tip off with the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder playing the new-look Houston Rockets on Oct. 21. What should be a full season of LeBron James and Luka Dončić playing together with the Los Angeles Lakers will also begin against the Golden State Warriors later that night.

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However, with the new season also comes an eagerly anticipated new media rights package in which the NBA has moved on to new TV partners, returning to NBC after a 22-year absence while also adding Prime Video as a streaming outlet. 

With two new streaming platforms in NBC’s Peacock and Amazon’s Prime Video joining the broadcast schedule, the NBA will eventually have national telecasts on every day of the week beginning in January. 

Here is how each TV partner’s NBA schedule will break down during the week:

NBC’s coverage will begin with the aforementioned Oct. 21 regular-season opener with Rockets-Thunder, followed by Warriors-Lakers. From there on, NBC and Peacock will have broadcasts every subsequent Tuesday with “Coast 2 Coast Tuesday” through April 7.

NBC will also broadcast an NBA Cup group play doubleheader on Nov. 25 with the 76ers hosting the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Clippers visiting the Lakers.

Peacock will have its own telecast on Monday nights in “Peacock NBA Monday” beginning Oct. 27 with the Detroit Pistons hosting the Cleveland Cavaliers at 7 p.m. ET. That schedule will continue each Monday through April 6. 

And on Sunday nights after the NFL season, NBC and Peacock will broadcast “Sunday Night Basketball.” The first Sunday telecast will be Feb. 1 before taking a two-week break for Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8, with the NBA All-Star Game and the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics on Feb. 15. NBC’s Sunday night NBA coverage will resume Feb. 22.

ESPN and ABC’s NBA schedule will remain as it was during the previous TV rights package. ESPN will televise games on Wednesday and Friday nights, while ABC will broadcast the NBA on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons. 

ESPN’s coverage begins Oct. 22 with the Cavaliers visiting the New York Knicks at 7 p.m. ET, followed by the Dallas Mavericks and No. 1 Cooper Flagg hosting the San Antonio Spurs with this year’s No. 2 selection, Dylan Harper and the 2024 NBA Rookie of the Year, Victor Wembanyama, at 9:30 p.m. ET.

That week, the network will also broadcast a doubleheader on Thursday with a Thunder-Indiana Pacers matchup at 7:30 p.m. ET followed by the Denver Nuggets and Nikola Jokić visiting the Warriors at 10 p.m. ET.

Additionally, ESPN will televise a Thanksgiving Eve triple-header on Nov. 26. Coverage begins with the Boston Celtics hosting the Pistons at 5 p.m. ET, followed by the Minnesota Timberwolves visiting the Thunder at 7:30 p.m. ET and the Warriors hosting the Rockets at 10 p.m. ET.

ABC’s Saturday NBA broadcasts (“NBA Primetime Saturday on ABC”) will begin with a Jan. 24 triple-header featuring the Knicks at the Philadelphia 76ers at 3 p.m. ET, Warriors-Timberwolves at 5:30 p.m. ET and Lakers-Mavericks at 8:30 p.m. ET. Broadcasts will air each subsequent Saturday through March 14. 

ABC’s Sunday NBA telecasts (“NBA Sunday Showcase on ABC”) tip off on Feb. 8 with Knicks-Celtics at 12:30 p.m. ET. Those will continue each Sunday afternoon with doubleheaders for three consecutive weeks until a single broadcast on March 15.

Prime Video begins its NBA coverage with an Oct. 24 doubleheader featuring Knicks-Celtics at 7:30 p.m. ET and Timberwolves-Lakers at 10 p.m. ET. 

The streaming channel then begins its NBA Cup tournament coverage with doubleheaders for the group play and knockout rounds beginning on Oct. 31 with Celtics-76ers at 7 p.m. ET and Lakers-Grizzlies at 10 p.m. ET. Prime Video will stream NBA Cup doubleheaders each following Friday through Nov. 28 before breaking out of its Friday schedule to other days of the week.

NBA Cup quarterfinal matchups will stream on Dec. 9 and 10, followed by semifinals on Dec. 13 and the 2025 championship on Dec. 16. 

The tournament’s other group play games will be divided among ESPN, NBC and NBA League Pass,

Phillies’ night sours in 7th inning of series-opening loss to Nationals

Phillies’ night sours in 7th inning of series-opening loss to Nationals originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

WASHINGTON — For the first time since being swept in late June by the Astros, the Phillies have a true losing streak.

They fell to a third consecutive defeat Thursday night at Nationals Park, dropping a 3-2 game to Washington in the opener of a four-game series. 

The 69-52 Phillies have totaled three runs during the three-game streak. The team is now 4-3 on its 10-game road trip. 

Starter Jesus Luzardo dipped to 11-6 on the season. He went six-plus innings and allowed four hits and three runs. Luzardo struck out seven and walked three. 

Luzardo’s sweeper was especially sharp in the early going. He notched five strikeouts over the first two innings, four on sweepers.

The sweeper is a new pitch for Luzardo this season and it’s been elite. Entering Thursday, batters had a .189 average and 43.8 percent whiff rate against it, according to Baseball Savant.

The Phillies didn’t need any loud contact against Nationals righty Brad Lord to take the lead in the third inning. Bryson Stott led off by squibbing a double over the third-base bag and Trea Turner followed with an infield single. After Kyle Schwarber struck out, Bryce Harper tapped an RBI ground ball to shortstop. 

Washington tied it up an inning later. Paul DeJong cracked a first-pitch Luzardo fastball just over the left-field wall. 

The Phils bounced right back with two outs in the fifth. 

Turner picked up another infield hit, and this one came with a shattered bat. Schwarber then clubbed a 3-1 heater off the right-center wall and Turner scored the go-ahead run. He added a third infield knock in the seventh inning. 

Luzardo’s seventh was not smooth at all.

DeJong walked, Riley Adams doubled and Daylen Lile walked. Luzardo exited and Orion Kerkering entered with no outs and the bases loaded.

He couldn’t escape the inherited trouble. Jose Tena ripped a one-out hit to left-center through the Phillies’ drawn-in infield and Washington went on top.

The Phillies threatened to even the game in the top of the ninth but couldn’t manage it. 

Max Kepler singled and Edmundo Sosa got him to second base with a sacrifice bunt. Bryson Stott then grounded out to first and the game ended with Turner waving at a Cole Henry sinker in on his hands. 

Bohm’s rehab stint 

At the final out of Phillies-Nationals, Alec Bohm was 2 for 4 in Triple-A Lehigh Valley’s Thursday night game. That puts him at 3 for 16 overall in four rehab outings as he works his way back from a fractured left rib. 

How much longer will Bohm’s rehab assignment last? 

“Through tomorrow for sure, and then we’ll see,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said pregame. 

Pitching plans 

The scheduled starters Friday night are the Phils’ Zack Wheeler (10-5, 2.68 ERA) and the Nats’ MacKenzie Gore (5-12, 4.09 ERA). 

With the Phillies moving to a six-man rotation for the time being, Taijuan Walker will start Saturday and Aaron Nola will return Sunday. Ranger Suarez is set to pitch Monday in Philadelphia against the Mariners. 

Nets’ 2025-26 NBA regular season schedule

After a disappointing 2024-25 season, the Nets are on the rebuild and hope to turn the franchise’s direction around.

Brooklyn finished the regular season 26-56, the sixth-worst record in the league, but wound up with the No. 8 pick after falling in the NBA Draft Lottery. GM Sean Marksselected guard Egor Demin from BYU and then drafted guard Nolan Traoré, wing Drake Powell, guard Ben Saraf, and big man Danny Wolf to round out the first round with a record five picks.

Marks also traded for wing Michael Porter Jr. from the Denver Nuggets in exchange for three-point specialist Cam Johnson, and acquired veteran wing Terrance Mann prior to the NBA Draft. They, along with five rookies, will join some returning players like Nic Claxton and Day’Ron Sharpe. Plus, Brooklyn hopes to have scoring guard Cam Thomas on the roster as well, but he’s yet to sign his qualifying offer or a contract extension with the team. It’s possible he could be a sign-and-trade candidate before the season tips off.

The NBA announced the regular season schedule on Thursday, so here are a few notes on what Nets fans can look forward to in 2025-26:

— Brooklyn opens the regular season in Charlotte against the Hornets on Wednesday, October 22 at 7:00 p.m.

— The Nets have just two nationally televised games on the slate: home against Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday, Nov. 3, on Peacock and Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, against the Chicago Bulls on ESPN.

— They’ll face off against the cross-town rival Knicks four times: Nov. 9 at New York, Nov. 25 at home, Jan. 21, 2026, at The Garden, and March 20, 2026, at the Barclays Center.

— Some notable matchups against star players and top teams around the league include: at San Antonio vs. Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs on Oct. 26, followed by a trip to Houston vs. the Rockets and former Net Kevin Durant on Oct. 27, and home against Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors on Dec. 29. The Dallas Mavericks, No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg, and potentially former Net Kyrie Irving (depending on injury recovery), visit Brooklyn on Feb. 24, 2026.

Here’s the entire Nets’ 2025-26 regular season schedule: