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Watching the NBA in 2025-26 has been a significant change for fans.
A new media rights deal kicked in for the NBA this season, meaning that while games are no longer on TNT, they have been on some new or returning platforms, including NBC and Amazon Prime Video.
For Amazon, the 2026 playoffs will be its first as an NBA partner for the next decade. The entire Play-In Tournament aired on Prime, while additional playoff games are also set to be on the streaming service.
Here's what to know about Amazon's NBA broadcasts for the 2026 playoffs, from its technological features to its announcers.
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According to Amazon, its NBA on Prime broadcasts feature some of the following customizable options and other aspects:
Another aspect that has been a feature of "Thursday Night Football" previously is "Prime Vision," which debuted for the NBA on Prime in December and "provides distinctive viewpoints from an above-the-rim primary camera angle alongside AI-powered innovations, on-screen graphic overlays, advanced stats, and more,"
Amazon Prime Video will introduce features like Prime Vision and Rapid Recap for its NBA playoff broadcasts.
A new media rights deal has shifted NBA broadcasts away from TNT, allowing platforms like Amazon Prime Video and NBC to air the games.
Amazon's partnership marks its first involvement in broadcasting NBA playoffs, indicating a long-term commitment to NBA media rights.
Amazon began airing NBA games during the 2025-26 season, including the entire Play-In Tournament.

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"Prime Vision" can provide real-time, advanced stats throughout a game, but one of its more prominent features comes on the court itself. Amazon's AI model can determine offensive player vs. defensive player mismatches — using size and skillsets — while in a game, then show viewers those mismatches by projecting a blue circle around the offensive player.
The NBA began a new media rights deal in the 2025-26 season that added both NBC and Amazon Prime Video to its rotation for games.
Prime's first NBA playoffs as an exclusive streaming partner with the NBA began in April, and the streaming service was also recently the home of every Play-In Tournament game.
According to the NBA, here are the games that will air exclusively on Prime Video in the first round of the 2026 playoffs:
Amazon Prime's NBA playoff broadcasts feature plenty of announcers, analysts and studio members who are already familiar to NBA fans.
The Prime broadcasts' play-by-play announcers include Ian Eagle, Kevin Harlan and Michael Grady. Analysts on Prime feature Brent Barry, Jim Jackson, Candace Parker and Stan Van Gundy, along with Dwayne Wade and Steve Nash, who will serve as game analysts, with Nash also contributing to studio coverage.
Other members of the studio coverage team include host Taylor Rooks, plus analysts Blake Griffin, Udonis Haslem, Dirk Nowitzki and Kyle Lowry, the current Philadelphia 76ers guard who will appear on "select shows throughout the postseason," per Amazon.
Allie Clifton, JayDee Dyer, and Kristina Pink all rotate on sideline reporter duties.