The Nuggets went to Sacramento and beat the Kings 122-108, led by Jokic, who put up a season-high 35 points in scoring for the early 2025-2026 NBA season. Along with Jokic, the Nuggets saw Jamal Murray add 23 points, and Aaron Gordon pile up 17 points, with the dynamic trio leading the Nuggets in scoring on the night.

Fox averaged 19.7 points, 6.8 assists, and 4.3 rebounds in that small sample size (6-11 record). To open this season, the former King scored 24 points on 9-of-14 from the field, 2-of-5 from three and 4-of-5 from the line, to go along with three rebounds and three assists over 31 minutes against New Orleans.

The linear channel will include NBA and WNBA games, Big Ten and Notre Dame Football, MLB games, Olympic Gold Zone and Premier League matches, among other programming.

NBCUniversal is back in the game of operating a stand-alone sports network. The Comcast-controlled media conglomerate said it would revive NBCSN, or NBC Sports Network, and devote it to sports programming that usually streams on the company’s Peacock service,

After already featuring Michael Jordan and Bob Costas, the NBA on NBC continued giving basketball fans all the ‘90s feels with a Marv Albert cameo. Time will tell whether NBC’s rekindled relationship with the NBA proves to a mutually beneficial one.

STAMFORD, Conn. – With the NBA returning to NBC and debuting on Peacock one week from today, NBC Sports announced its broadcast assignments for the first two weeks of games ahead of the 2025-26 NBA season beginning on Oct. 21. NBA Tip-Off: Houston Rockets at Oklahoma City Thunder at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock

Though NBC isn’t discussing Jordan’s role publicly, seemingly everyone else in sports media is. When the greatest basketball player of all time speaks, people listen – and watch, in this case.

NBCUniversal’s revived sports cable network will light back up on Monday, the company said, with YouTube TV as its initial distribution platform. Comcast’s Xfinity pay-TV system will follow “soon,” NBCU said in a press release, with other operators to be announced at a later date.

This week, Coast 2 Coast Tuesday on November 11 features a pair of must-watch games, and it all tips off in Philly, where the 76ers host the Celtics beginning at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. The game will also stream live on Peacock. That's followed by the Denver Nuggets at the Sacramento Kings at 11 p.m. ET.