DETROIT – Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! will air on Cozi TV on Tuesday as live NBA coverage returns to NBC. Through NBC’s new deal with the NBA, WDIV Local 4 will air the first two games of the regular season Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. An NBA pregame show will air from 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Fans tuning into the NBA this season will have to adjust their viewing habits to new networks and a seven-day-a-week national TV schedule.

The show will also air throughout the 2026 NBA Playoffs, including the Eastern Conference Finals and NBA Finals. "Inside the NBA" will make its ESPN debut on Wednesday, Oct. 22. Date TV/Live stream Games Oct. 22 ESPN, ESPN app NBA on ESPN doubleheader Oct ...

The new NBA season is here and with it comes a new-look broadcast schedule. The 2025-26 season is the first under the NBA's new media-rights deal that marks an end of the NBA on TNT and the return of games on NBC.

Maybe it was the nostalgia kicking in, but Tuesday felt bigger than usual for the NBA as it returned to NBC for the first time since 2002.

NBA TV has returned to league control for the first time since 2008, launching a restructured slate of programming that includes 60 regular season games, expanded international coverage and a new nightly studio show.

SportsLine's model simulated Oklahoma City vs. Houston 10,000 times and revealed its NBA picks for Opening Night on Tuesday as Kevin Durant makes his debut for Houston

Kevin Durant and the Rockets battled the defending champion Thunder into double overtime before losing in the final seconds.