Basketball

Brazilian commercial broadcaster Bandeirantes has agreed a multi-year extension to its free-to-air rights deal with the NBA, as the North American basketball league’s 2020-21 season prepares to tip off.

Euroleague Basketball has agreed a media-rights deal in Ukraine and Central Asia until the 2022-23 season with pan-regional broadcaster Setanta, having previously been without coverage in the region

The National Basketball Association G League and digital sports media network Overtime have struck a content development partnership to create unique daily video material including game, event and behind-the-scenes…

Australia’s National Basketball League has entered into a ‘multi-year’ agreement with sports data and content supplier Sportradar commencing in the middle of January 2021. U

Brazilian commercial broadcaster Bandeirantes is thought to be close to agreeing a renewal for free-to-air rights to North American basketball’s NBA.

Sports data and technology company Genius Sports Group has entered into a new 10-year agreement with the Polish Basketball League (PLK) and Polish Basketball Association (PZK) to serve as their exclusive…

The National Basketball Association's Sacramento Kings have expanded their digital presence by debuting a server on leading gaming chat platform Discord

The British Basketball League has been buoyed by the return of a rights deal with a domestic broadcaster in a two-year agreement with pay-television broadcaster Sky

Basketball Australia’s new agreement with domestic broadcasters Foxtel, the pay-television operator, and ABC, the public broadcaster, will see all 60 games of the 2020 Chemist Warehouse WNBL season shown l…

Sports streaming platform Fanseat has acquired rights to Spanish top-tier basketball league and cup competitions for exploitation in France and Denmark

The NBA has avoided a severe decrease in fee for its rights in Belgium despite an absence of competition, renewing with Eleven Sports Network for the 2020-23 cycle at a slight reduction compared to the previous cycle.

Spanish telco Telefónica has agreed to pay a modest per-season uplift to renew its exclusive NBA rights in Spain for the 2020-23 cycle, SportBusiness Media understands.

IMG Arena, the sports betting arm of the IMG agency, has agreed a long-term rights deal with Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the top tier of Italian club basketball

Subscription broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights to Europe’s Basketball Champions League in the US.

Pay-television broadcaster A1 Bulgaria has acquired domestic rights to the Bulgarian National Basketball League (NBL) for the next three seasons

CCTV, the state-run Chinese broadcaster, will air the fifth game of the NBA Finals series, marking the first time an NBA game will be broadcast in China since a controversial tweet damaged the nation’s r…

The French Basketball Federation (FFBB) sacrificed domestic media-rights income from its club competitions in order to reboot the sport in free-to-air deals with digital terrestrial broadcasters L’Équipe TV and ‘Sport in France’, SportBusiness Media understands.

Spanish telco Telefónica will pay an unchanged fee to renew its rights to the nation’s top tier of domestic basketball after agreeing a three-season extension with the Liga ACB.