The National Basketball Association unveiled its full 2025-26 regular-season schedule, confirming that NBC will resume carrying games for the first time since 2002 and joining ESPN/ABC and Amazon’s Prime Video in a rights package that swells the national slate to 247 contests, up from 172 last year. All 30 clubs will appear at least twice on national television, helped by new weekly windows that place Monday doubleheaders on Peacock, NBC/Peacock on Tuesdays, ESPN on Wednesdays, and Prime Video on Fridays, with additional Thursday, Saturday and Sunday slots added after mid-season. The campaign opens 21 Oct. on NBC and Peacock with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s defending-champion Oklahoma City Thunder hosting Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets, followed by LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers at Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors. Amazon will make its NBA debut three nights later with a Celtics-Knicks and Timberwolves-Lakers doubleheader, and will stream eight Saturday afternoon games aimed at European primetime as well as every Emirates NBA Cup knockout game. Marquee holiday programmes are intact. A five-game Christmas schedule features Cleveland at New York, San Antonio at Oklahoma City, Dallas at Golden State, Houston at Los Angeles, and Minnesota at Denver. NBC and Peacock will also air a four-game Martin Luther King Jr. Day slate on 19 Jan. highlighted by Bucks-Hawks in Atlanta and Thunder-Cavaliers in Cleveland. Oklahoma City, the Lakers, Warriors and New York Knicks top the exposure list with 34 national broadcasts apiece. The league’s in-season Emirates NBA Cup begins group play on 31 Oct., with Prime Video televising its knockout rounds and final in Las Vegas on 16 Dec.