What Will the Future of the NBA on TV Look Like? | The Answer

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Chris is joined by CNBC sports business reporter Jabari Young to discuss how the next NBA TV deal could change how we watch basketball (02:00). Later, Chris and The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis weigh in on how the NBA television and League Pass experience could be improved (23:00). Host: Chris Ryan Guest: Jabari Young and Bryan Curtis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Ringer Stave Hill takes you on a journey into the underground lives and careers of six professional gamblers.
0:05.3	This eight-part podcast is a unique look into the gambling world that you don't want to miss.
0:09.4	Check out gamblers on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:39.4	Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA show.
0:51.1	It is the answer on your most crisp Ryan and we are in the dog days of the NBA season.
0:56.7	No March madness.
0:57.7	It feels a little bit more consequential with the final four and baseball is a little bit
1:03.8	more full of hope for more people.
1:05.4	I know I'm feeling hopeful.
1:06.7	Hopefully it will be the braves on opening day.
1:09.2	So we're all waiting for the playoffs to start.
1:10.6	I'm obviously still watching a lot of NBA but over the last week or so I've probably spent
1:15.2	more time thinking about how I watch the NBA than what I'm watching.
1:19.1	The current NBA TV deal runs through the 2024-2025 season and we're already starting to hear
1:25.0	some talk about what the next deal might look like.
1:29.0	Television or what we think of as television whether it's streaming services, what have
1:32.6	you.
1:33.6	It's so different than what it was 10 years ago.
1:36.2	Five years ago, I mean it's different than it was 18 months ago.
1:40.1	But watching the NBA still feels pretty much the same.
1:43.7	The national broadcasts, the studio shows, the league pass experience, it looks, it feels
1:48.8	a lot like what we've been watching for the last decade or so.
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