Wondering where to watch NBA basketball during the 2025-2026 season? The rich tradition of athletic competition established by ABC Sports continues with the best games each and every weekend during the NBA season right through the NBA Finals.

ESPN and ABC will primarily cover games on Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays during the 2025-26 regular season. "Inside the NBA" will serve as ESPN's main pregame, halftime and postgame show for its biggest events, but "NBA Countdown" will still air before select games.

The program will continue to be produced by TNT Sports from its Atlanta studios and will feature the longtime cast of host Ernie Johnson and analysts Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith.

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

The Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers revisit their matchup in last spring’s NBA Finals with an early-season showdown Thursday night in Indianapolis.

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.

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.

Stuart Scott would have loved this. That's what fellow sports commentator Michael Wilbon said of this year's dramatic NBA Finals, reflecting on his late friend. ABC played the touching tribute during Game 1, pausing to reflect on Scott's legacy. Scott, the ...

In Game 4 of the 2000 Finals, Kobe Bryant played 47 minutes and scored 28 points to beat the Pacers in overtime. In Game 1 of the 2001 Finals, Allen Iverson executed one of the most memorable plays in history.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder to an NBA championship. He had one of the greatest individual seasons ever with an MVP, NBA Finals MVP and a championship ring. While Tyrese Haliburton tore his Achilles, he had one of the more memorable playoff runs, filled with clutch buckets.