When basketball great Reggie Miller thinks about NBC’s long history of televising NBA games starting in the 1990s, “my hands start to tremble,” he confides recently during a press conference. “As a player, I had some of my best moments” on NBC, he acknowledged, and “my hands still get sweaty” when the memories return.
Now a lot of people are hoping Miller’s hands will act up when he thinks of the NBA on NBC over the next decade.
Like the former Indiana Pacer, a massive clutch of NBA games are coming to NBC from Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT, where they had been shown for nearly 40 years (and where Miller once helped explain game action before joining NBC). And NBC hopes to turbocharge the matchups with the bigger potential audience that executives hope will find them on a broadcast network.
“You have a certain demographic that may not be watching NBA games,…