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Mike Vorkunov: The NBA has considered launching a local League Pass, but that likely wouldn’t be until the 2026-27 season at the earliest. It has spoken to Amazon, Apple, YouTube, DAZN, Disney, and Peacock about that idea, and has also considered doing that itself through the NBA App.
The NBA has considered launching a local League Pass, but that likely wouldn’t be until the 2026-27 season at the earliest. It has spoken to Amazon, Apple, YouTube, DAZN, Disney, and Peacock about that idea, and has also considered doing that itself through the NBA App.
The sense from Silver’s comments was that he’d like to have the league’s potential national streaming RSN figured out before granting expansion teams — whether it’s to Seattle, Las Vegas or Mexico City. At this week’s BOG meetings, Silver said President of Global Content & Media Distribution Bill Koenig delivered a presentation on the streaming RSN, and sources said the league does not intend to rush the streaming platform. Instead, it will continue negotiating for the best deal, whether that’s with Amazon, YouTube, Apple, ESPN+ or some other streaming service, believing the value of local broadcasts remain prohibitive.
Microbetting company nVenue has partnered with the WNBA to provide its predictive analytics for the 2025 season, the startup’s first deal with a women’s sports property after previous work with the NBA, NASCAR and Apple TV for its Friday night MLB games. This follows a recent multimillion-dollar funding round from strategic investors FDJ Ventures, The Collectiv, and DigitalWin. Lead investor KB Partners also added participated with a follow-on check.
According to Dailey, All The Smoke is in active conversations with Amazon, Netflix and Apple for upcoming projects. “Content is king, and coming with all these new streaming platforms, they’re going to need content,” said Barnes. “Particularly with the people that just did the new NBA and WNBA deal, building, both male and female and basketball.”
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Kevin Durant did not appear to be all that impressed with Kendrick Lamar's performance at the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show or the game itself. When asked by Dana Scott of The Arizona Republic on Monday for his thoughts about the halftime show, Durant responded, "It meant nothing to me." “It was a pretty boring day,” Durant added. “The game was a little… yeah, the game got out of hand.”
Chris Mannix: From what I was told from people close to Bradley Beal this week is that, look, would he okay a deal to another contender, Miami included? Yes. He ain't okaying a deal to like Detroit or Charlotte or any rebuilding team that's out there. He's not doing that.
Chris Fedor: ‘I’m told that this front office is going to get together with Kenny Atkinson when he returns from France they're going to have a conversation about whether there are any players out there with with ties to Kenny either from his days in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Golden State that would make sense to fill that roster spot and be some combination of maybe the guy can play, maybe the guy can add playable depth, but he's a locker room Lieutenant for Kenny. Somebody who can teach some of these guys the system and set a professional attitude with the culture and stuff like that. I don't know who that would be, I don't know who fits that profile. Maybe it is Tristan Thompson, maybe it is Marcus Morris, maybe it is somebody else that that we haven't talked about, maybe it's you know one of these guys that's on the French national team that he wants to bring to America.’
Chris Fedor: ‘All the indications that I have gotten are that this organization still is committed to Emoni Bates and his development and that's why they made that qualifying offer to him, that two-way qualifying offer but he's going to spend a majority of his second season in the NBA with the Cleveland Charge and that's where this organization believes he is best suited and that's where this organization believes that he belongs at this point in his development.
Joel Embiid: LeBron James is not what he was a couple years ago
“Do you have any doubt about who's going to win the gold medal? Joel Embiid: I mean, you look at the talent that the US has, but I mean, there's also equal time on other teams. And the talent that's on the US team, you also got to understand that most of those guys are also older. LeBron now is not the LeBron that was a couple of years ago. So it's a big difference. So the name might be there, but everybody would also tell you, and you can see for yourself, the athletic LeBron and the dominant that he was a couple of years ago is not the same that he is now. So, yeah, I mean, I think people get fooled by the names on their own paper, but, yeah, those names have been built throughout their career and now they're older, so they're not what they used to be.”
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Joel Embiid on his decision to play for USA: France tried to rush me and USA told me to take my time
Joel Embiid: “So it was tough, but my goal growing up, I watched the Olympics. It was always about, you know, I want to play, I want to be part of it, so that's been my dream. So to me, that was what matters the most, you know, achieving my dreams. And, you know, one thing I said, I was, I kind of felt a rush in that decision because I wanted to take as much time as possible. And it didn't help that, you know, France that put an ultimatum on, you know, when the decision had to be made.”
“They set a timeline and said, so what was the timeline that they said? Joel Embiid: I didn't know, you know, I saw it on Twitter, and I was like, whoa, you know, where did this come from? Because I mean, from the conversation that I had with the US was, you know, just take as much time as you need. You know, there's no rush, you know, we'd love to have you, but it's okay, you know, if you make another decision.”
Paul George likely to stay in LA?
Brian Windhorst: To my to my mind, there's only three real options that I can that I know about that Paul George really has. Stay in LA, which I would still put as the highest percentage chance of happening. Stay in LA for similar to what Kawhi got. Opt-in and trade, probably to the Warriors. The Warriors I know are interested in this. Third, sign straight up with the Sixers.
Tim MacMahon: I’ve heard KCP’s decision is going to come down to Denver or dollars. The Nuggets aren't going to win a bidding war from what I've heard.
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