The 2025 NBA season tips off with an incredible doubleheader with the Houston Rockets vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder followed by the Golden State Warriors vs. the Los Angeles Lakers. Opening night airs on Tuesday, Oct. 21 on NBC, which can be streamed online with Peacock.

Details for fans on how and when to watch the popular program "Inside the NBA" on ESPN during the 2025-26 NBA season.

Fans of NBA on TNT will have to adjust to the new schedule and studio shows. Major sports league contracts don’t change hands often. But on Oct. 21, Comcast’s (CMCSA) NBCUniversal wrested the U.S.’s second most-popular — and fastest-growing worldwide — league out of Warner Bros.

Inside the NBA' returns on ESPN this season with Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Shaquille O'Neal and Ernie Johnson. Here's the schedule.

NBC’s streaming service has Peacock NBA Monday doubleheaders starting October 27, plus simulcasts of all NBC’s games and the November 1 game in Mexico City between Dallas and Detroit. Peacock and NBC combine to televise a Martin Luther King Jr. Day quadrupleheader January 19.

Taylor Rooks is a host who has worked for Big Ten Network, SNY, CBS Sports Network, and Bleacher Report, but Amazon marks her biggest platform to date. The 33-year-old will anchor the streaming service’s studio coverage for NBA games.

A look at the new NBA television landscape, and what to expect as NBC, Peacock and Amazon Prime join ABC and ESPN as rights-holders.

Postgame editions will be open-ended on ESPN while ABC will run a half-hour and then continue on the ESPN app. The program will air on 20 dates during the regular season and throughout the NBA Playoffs, including the Eastern Conference Finals and the NBA Finals.

The NBA’s return to NBC is part of an 11-year, $76 billion rights package spread across ESPN/ABC, NBC/Peacock and Amazon’s Prime Video. NBC will air primetime games on Tuesdays throughout the season, and Sundays after its NFL commitments end, and Peacock will have streaming-exclusive games on Monday nights.