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The debut of “Sunday Night Basketball” on NBC just felt big, from Mike Tirico to Caitlin Clark to Reggie Miller to Luka Doncic to LeBron James to Spike Lee to “Roundball Rock.” This didn’t feel like game No. 50 of the regular season — it felt like opening night. Getting Lakers-Knicks at MSG was great scheduling by the league and NBC, especially on a night with little to no competition on the sports side outside an NHL Stadium Series game on ESPN. Lakers-Knicks won’t beat the Grammys, but it had the same big-time feel. Sources are telling me that we’ll be getting an announcement on the Mountain West’s new TV deal on Tuesday. It wouldn’t surprise me if The CW and CBS are partners with the conference, as well as another partner or two.
Over his career, Scoop has worked with leading media outlets such as ESPN, CBS, Bally Sports and The Source Magazine. But, every great story includes a plot twist, and for Scoop, that came in 2023. After two and a half years at a major television network, he found himself part of a massive layoff — a blow that could’ve stalled his momentum, but instead reignited it. “When I got that call, I was sitting in L.A.,” Scoop recalls. “I went straight to the beach. I wasn’t panicked — I was peaceful. Because I already knew God wasn’t closing a door, He was redirecting me.”
With LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne failing to comply with the Low Remuneration Level requirements, Euroleague Basketball officially confirmed measures to be enforced, according to the Competition Balance Standards regulations. More details on the compliance report of Euroleague Basketball were announced on Monday. Per the press release: “After the enforcement of the ‘Competition Balance Standards (CBS)’ rules, part of Financial Sustainability & Fair Play regulations, at the start of the 2025-26 EuroLeague season, Euroleague Basketball made public a compliance report on participating teams.
Kidd saw shades of another former Duke star in Flagg's game: Grant Hill, who shared the Rookie of the Year award with Kidd in 1994-95, when the 6-foot-8 Hill ran the point a lot for the Detroit Pistons. Kidd saw the same phenomenal blend of feel and force in Flagg that Hill had coming out of Duke. "I saw that, too," Hill, who as managing director of Team USA invited Flagg to join the program's select team and called some of his college games for CBS, told ESPN. "He tries to play the complete game. You look up and he's got 22 points and it doesn't even feel like he looked to score. He's so unselfish. He defends. He just tries to do what's necessary to win games."
She will continue as a studio analyst for the NCAA championship, broadcast jointly with CBS, and will also work as lead analyst for TNT’s inaugural seasons of Big East and Big 12 basketball. Parker continues as a lead studio analyst for TNT’s coverage of the Unrivaled women’s basketball league, and as a Bleacher Report contributor.
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Brian Lewis: After Jeremiah Fears and Kon Knueppel - the latter of whom has a workout scheduled with Brooklyn - Nique Clifford is the next highest-rated prospect known to work out for the #Nets. He’s mocked 13th by CBS, 17th by Tankathon and 20th by Bleacher Report. #NBA
Chris Haynes, the guy who’s broken more NBA news than most players can rack up double-doubles, is making the jump to the BIG3 as a sideline reporter. And no, this isn’t some random “who’s that?” hire. Haynes has been around the block—covering LeBron’s Cavs, KD’s Warriors, and dropping “Haynes Briefs” like they’re hot. But now? He’s bringing that insider edge to Ice Cube’s basketball playground. Starting June 14, Chris Haynes will join Rachel DeMita for live coverage across CBS and VICE Sports. And before you get all “who cares about sideline reporters,” let’s be real: having someone who gets it on the mic is crucial. Haynes isn’t just gonna be shouting out generic “great play” lines. Nah, he’s gonna drop the kind of takes that’ll make you second-guess your fantasy draft.
Florida's 65-63 win over Houston in Monday's NCAA men's title game averaged 18.1 million viewers with a 9.2 rating on CBS. The number represents the highest rated men's title game since Baylor-Gonzaga in 2021 and the most-watched since Virginia-Texas Tech in 2019.
While the NBA is leaving TNT Sports after this season, Grant Hill is staying behind to remain on the company’s college basketball coverage. Hill has struck a “long-term” contract extension with TNT Sports to remain as the company’s lead college basketball analyst, it was announced Thursday. He will continue to serve on the lead broadcast team for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament — which TNT shares with CBS — and add new roles on TNT’s upcoming BIG EAST and Big 12 basketball games.
When the NBA bounces later this year from Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT cable network to NBCUniversal’s NBC and Peacock and Amazon’s Prime Video, the league will spark perhaps the biggest transfer of audience and advertising dollars in the history of the medium since CBS lost a decades-old contract with the NFL to Fox in 1993. Viewership shifts caused by that move, including the loss of affiliates, still pressure CBS today. Warner could be in similar straits: The company is projected to lose $1.1 billion in TV advertising in 2026, approximately 23% of its total this year, according to Robert Fishman, an analyst with MoffettNathanson, due in significant part to the absence of the NBA on its networks for the first time since 1989.
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The two sides now agree that Barkley will not be going anywhere. While TNT Sports is trying its Hail Mary attempt to hold onto the NBA, Barkley will still be utilized on its NCAA Tournament coverage that TNT Sports combines with CBS, while it could explore opportunities with its other properties, including the NHL. The network is also trying to expand its programming on TNT Sports so it doesn’t seem out of the question that it could either build a new studio program around Barkley or try to keep its iconic “Inside The NBA” together even after next year.
The WNBA’s current media deals, valued at roughly $50 million annually, are set to expire after the 2025 season, with Disney, Ion, CBS and Amazon as its media partners. The new rights fees could have as much as six times multiple of the league’s current media rights fees since the new deals leave room for the WNBA to bring in new partners. The league anticipates it will sell two other rights packages in addition to the ones it has already made agreements for, and projects to bring in another $60 million annually in total in those additional deals.
Jay Wright, the former Villanova coach who retired in 2022, reiterated in an interview with The Post that he has no interest in returning to coaching at the age of 62. He’s loving life as a CBS college basketball analyst. “No,” Wright said, when asked if he has any interest in coaching again. “It’s humbling that someone would even mention you or think about you. I’ve been around so long, all the guys who are making the decisions, I know those guys. I wasn’t talking to [Lakers general manager] Rob Pelinka at the end of that. There were no conversations. “
For the second-straight week, a nationally televised matchup of Caitlin Clark’s Fever and Angel Reese’s Sky delivered the top WNBA audience in 23 years. Sunday’s Fever-Sky WNBA regular season game, the third meeting of the season between Indiana’s Caitlin Clark and Chicago’s Angel Reese, averaged 2.30 million viewers on ESPN — surpassing the teams’ meeting on CBS the prior week (2.25M) as the most-watched WNBA game since Memorial Day 2001.