Veteran NBA broadcaster Kevin Harlan has signed a three-year contract with Amazon Prime Video to name video games starting this fall, sources advised The Athletic. The deal was finalized in Might as Amazon prepares for its new NBA broadcasting package deal.
Harlan joins Amazon after almost three many years with Turner Sports activities, the place he known as NBA video games from 1996 to 2025. His remaining Turner broadcast got here on Might 31 throughout the Pacers-Knicks playoff sequence because the community concluded its NBA protection.
Amazon has additionally added former Brent Barry as a sport analyst. Barry brings expertise as a 14-year NBA veteran, broadcaster, entrance workplace govt, and most lately as an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns.
The streaming service has assembled a formidable broadcasting crew for its NBA debut. Play-by-play announcers embody Ian Eagle and Michael Grady, whereas analysts function Blake Griffin, Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, Candace Parker, Stan Van Gundy, and Dwyane Wade.
Amazon plans to combine and match analysts between two- and three-person broadcast cubicles all through the season. This versatile method permits the community to make the most of its deep expertise pool throughout in depth sport stock with out mounted crew assignments.
Ian Eagle is anticipated to deal with play-by-play duties for Amazon’s 2027 NBA Convention Finals protection. The community doesn’t distinguish between lead announcers for normal season video games given the standard of each Eagle and Harlan.
“With TNT shedding the rights, and it is very unhappy there, it clearly has made a sea change for many of us and navigating that’s all the time a problem,” Harlan advised The Sports activities Media Podcast in February. “I’m in my 60s and to have somebody with a vivid new shiny alternative for somebody at my stage of this profession, which is dominated by youthful broadcasters and extremely proficient folks, to have them need me to hitch their roster is humbling and extremely gratifying.”
