Basketball

7/26/2024 |  Buses get basketball players from Lille to Paris for 2024 opening ceremony (Associated Press (AP)) VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Train issues are not a problem for the basketball teams making the trip from Lille and Villeneuve-D’Ascq near the Belgium border to the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Games.
Buses work just fine.
As the host nation, the French women’s basketball team already was in Paris by early Friday afternoon, having boarded a bus for a trip that can be as short as 138 miles (222 km). The Belgian Cats also jumped on a bus for the trip, with Emma Meesseman serving as a flag-bearer for Belgium.

7/26/2024 |  Why the NBA's new $76 billion TV deal marks the perfect time to shorten the season (CBS Sports) The Denver Nuggets have owned the Los Angeles Lakers since the beginning of 2023. In that time, they have played eight regular-season games and the Nuggets have won all eight of them. They've played nine playoff games and the Nuggets have also won eight of those. Yet when discussing the second of those series, a first-round victory this spring, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope made a somewhat startling admission on The Draymond Green Show. "We felt the Lakers should have beat us," the now-former Nugget said.

7/26/2024 |  Why the NBA's new $76 billion TV deal marks the perfect time to shorten the season (CBS Sports) The Denver Nuggets have owned the Los Angeles Lakers since the beginning of 2023. In that time, they have played eight regular-season games and the Nuggets have won all eight of them. They've played nine playoff games and the Nuggets have also won eight of those. Yet when discussing the second of those series, a first-round victory this spring, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope made a somewhat startling admission on The Draymond Green Show. "We felt the Lakers should have beat us," the now-former Nugget said.

7/25/2024 |  “Roundball Rock” is back in the NBA’s new TV deal. And there’s lots more for viewers to know (Associated Press (AP)) John Tesh’s iconic theme music for NBA broadcasts on NBC is coming back when the league’s new media rights deals commence in the 2025-26 season and is one of many highlights of the 11-year agreement the league finally completed Wednesday.
Some other elements of the deals that might be pertinent to viewers:
Sunday Night Basketball …
NBC already has the wildly successful Sunday Night Football, and when the NFL playoffs are over, get ready for Sunday Night Basketball. A one-hour pregame show will start at 7 p.m. Eastern, followed by an 8 p.m. game on NBC and Peacock.

7/25/2024 |  WNBA announces landmark 11-year media rights deal with Disney, Amazon Prime and NBC (Associated Press (AP)) More than 100 WNBA regular-season games will be broadcast each season through an 11-year media rights deal with Disney, Amazon Prime and NBC that the league announced Wednesday.
While the league didn’t reveal the value, a person familiar with the deal confirmed to The Associated Press that the WNBA would receive about $200 million a year. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been made.