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How to watch every NBA game in 2024
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The 2024 NBA season is in full swing. With so many basketball games being played, figuring out how and when to watch the NBA game of your choice can take some serious detective work. This season, nationally broadcast NBA games will air on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2, TNT and TBS, and NBATV. But not all NBA games will be broadcast nationally, and watching out-of-market NBA games isn’t always as easy as flipping on the TV.
We found the best sports streaming platforms to give you the most access to the most NBA games this season.
Does every NBA game air nationally? What you need to know about watching the NBA
With 30 teams playing 82 games each, not every NBA game gets a national broadcast. Likewise, not every NBA team gets an equal number of nationally broadcast games. For the 2023-2024 NBA season, the Golden State Warriors have the most nationally televised games with 29, followed by the Los Angeles Lakers who have 28 games televised nationally this season. The Boston Celtics have 26 games televised nationally and the Phoenix Suns follow with 25. That makes sense considering each team’s star power and strong fan base.
Each NBA team has a local affiliate which airs its games for the local market. That’s where the detective works comes in. If you’re a Los Angeles Lakers fan living out of the Southern California television market, for example, you won’t be able watch the Lakers play with a cable subscription alone unless the game is nationally televised. (You can watch some local games with an HDTV antenna.)
How to watch NBA games this season without cable
You can’t watch out-of-market NBA games isn’t possible with just a cable subscription, unless the game is nationally televised.To watch teams playing out of your area, you’ll need a streaming platform or app such as NBA League Pass or Sling TV’s NBA Season Pass.
NBA League Pass: Watch out-of-market NBA games this season
If you want to catch out-of-market NBA games during the 2024 season, NBA League Pass gives you the most access to the most basketball games this season. (There are some blackout games, which you won’t be able to watch live, which we’ll explain below.)
With the NBA League Pass, you can watch out-of-market games live and on-demand, plus get round the clock NBA TV coverage. With an upgraded NBA League Pass Premium subscription, you get everything included in the NBA League Pass, plus you’ll be able to stream live and on-demand games on up to three different devices at a time — and get access to the in-arena stream for the game of your choice.
NBA League Pass is currently priced at $15 per month. NBA League Pass Premium costs $23 per month. NBA League Pass offers a seven-day free trial.
What you need to know about watching the NBA on NBA League Pass: NBA League Pass has some blackout games, which means certain local games and all nationally broadcast games will be available three hours after the live broadcast. All subscription tiers include access to live radio broadcasts of all NBA games.
Stream national and local NBA games on Sling TV and get NBA Season Pass
If you have don’t have cable TV that includes ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS and NBATV one of the most cost-effective ways to stream NBA games this year, and still get access to local programming, is through a subscription to Sling TV. The streamer offers access to 46 channels, including TNT and ESPN, plus local ABC affiliates (where available) with its Orange + Blue Tier plan. But what really sets Sling TV apart is its NBA Season Pass offering, that give you special access to watch every out-of-market NBA game live.
Sling TV has a special offer for those interested in NBA Season Pass: You can prepay for three months of the basketball streaming service, plus all the channels in the Orange + Blue tier, for $135. That works out to $45 per month. (One month of Orange + Blue regularly costs $60, so this combo plan is the best value.) NBA Season Pass is available as a $15 per month a la carte offering, though you’ll pay just $10 for your first month.
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Top features of Sling TV Orange + NBA League Pass:
- There are 46 channels to watch in total, including local NBC, Fox and ABC affiliates (where available).
- You get access to most local NBA and nationally broadcast games at the lowest price.
- All subscription tiers include 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage, perfect for recording all the biggest games of the season.
- With Sling TV Orange + NBA League Pass, you’ll get access to all the NBA games you want to watch (minus local blackout games), plus network programs airing on NBC, ABC, Fox and more. It’s the most cost-effective way to watch out-of-market NBA games and local network programming.
Watch the NBA live this season on Fubo
You can catch the NBA 2024 season live on FuboTV. Fubo is a sports-centric streaming service that offers access to local and nationally aired NBA games, not to mention almost every NFL game next season. Packages include your local ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates, TNT, ESPN, NBC, the NFL Network and more, so you’ll be able to watch more than just the 2024 NBA season, all without a cable subscription.
To watch the 2024 NBA season without cable, start a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You can begin watching immediately on your TV, phone, tablet or computer. In addition to NBA games, offers college football, NFL, NCAA March Madness, MLB, NHL, MLS and international soccer games. Fubo’s Pro Tier is priced at $80 per month after your free seven-day trial.
Top features of FuboTV Pro Tier:
- There are no contracts with Fubo — you can cancel at any time.
- You can watch sporting events up to 72 hours after they air with Fubo Lookback.
- The Pro tier includes 186 channels, including NFL Network. (You’ll need to upgrade to Ultimate for NFL RedZone.)
- Fubo includes all the channels you’ll need to watch college and pro football, including CBS (not available through Sling TV).
- All tiers come with 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
- Stream on your TV, phone, tablet and other devices.
Watch local and national NBA games on Hulu + Live TV
You can watch the NBA with Hulu + Live TV. The bundle features access to 90 channels, including both TNT and ABC, so you’ll be able to catch nationally televised NBA games and your local games, while still being able to watch local network programming. Unlimited DVR storage is also included. Watch every local and nationally televised NBA game on every network this season with Hulu + Live TV, plus catch NFL games next season.
Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+. It’s priced at $77.
What is the NBA app?
The NBA app is a terrific companion for die hard basketball fans who want to stay up to date on the latest scores. You’ll be able to download the NBA app on your phone or mobile device and get the latest news, stories and highlights of what’s happening in the league now. You can find the NBA app on Google Play and the Apple App Store.
Can I watch the NBA on ESPN+?
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to watch the 2024 NBA season with the ESPN+ app. ESPN+ does not include access to the ESPN network. It is a separate sports-centric service, with separate sports programming.
Key dates for the 2023-2024 NBA season
Here are all the important dates for basketball fans to remember, leading up to the NBA Finals in June.
- Feb. 16-18: NBA All-Star 2024 game (Indianapolis, IN)
- Feb. 16-21: NBA All-Star break
- March 1: Playoff Eligibility Waiver Deadline
- March 30: NBA G League Regular Season ends
- April 2: NBA G League Playoffs begin
- April 14: NBA Regular Season ends
- April 15: NBA Rosters set for NBA Playoffs 2024 (3 p.m. ET)
- April 16-19: NBA Play-In Tournament
- April 20: NBA 2024 Playoffs begin
- April 28: NBA Early Entry Eligibility Deadline (11:59 p.m. ET)
- May 6-7: Conference Semifinals begin (may move up to May 4-5)
- May 12: NBA Draft Lottery presented by State Farm (Chicago, IL)
- May 13-17: NBA Combine (Chicago, IL)
- May 21-22: Conference Finals begin (may move up to May 19-20)
- June 6: NBA Finals 2024 Game 1
- June 9: NBA Finals 2024 Game 2
- June 12: NBA Finals 2024 Game 3
- June 14: NBA Finals 2024 Game 4
- June 17: NBA Draft Early Entry Entrant Withdrawal Deadline (5 p.m. ET)
- June 17: NBA Finals 2024 Game 5 (if necessary)
- June 20: NBA Finals 2024 Game 6 (if necessary)
- June 23: NBA Finals 2024 Game 7 (if necessary)
- June 26: NBA Draft 2024 presented by State Farm (First Round)
- June 27: NBA Draft 2024 presented by State Farm (Second Round)
- July 12-22: NBA 2K Vegas Summer League (Las Vegas)
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California Gov. Newsom defers clemency decision as incoming LA County district attorney reviews Menendez brothers case
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will defer his decision on the Menendez brothers’ clemency petition to allow for incoming Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman to review the case, his office announced Monday.
“The Governor respects the role of the District Attorney in ensuring justice is served and recognizes that voters have entrusted District Attorney-elect Hochman to carry out this responsibility,” Newsom’s office said in a statement. “The Governor will defer to the DA-elect’s review and analysis of the Menendez case prior to making any clemency decisions.”
Lyle and Erik Menendez have spent roughly 35 years in state prison after they were convicted in their parents’ 1989 murder. Outgoing District Attorney George Gascón sent letters in support of the brothers’ clemency to Newsom after a Netflix show and documentary revived interest in the brothers’ case.
“I strongly support clemency for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are currently serving sentences of life without possibility of parole. They have respectively served 34 years and have continued their educations and worked to create new programs to support the rehabilitation of fellow inmates,” Gascón said in a statement before losing his re-election bid.
In an interview, Hochman said if the case is not resolved by a Nov. 25 habeas petition hearing — when a judge will hear a motion requesting to vacate the first-degree murder convictions — he will review the case to determine whether or not to recommend resentencing.
Hochman, who will be sworn in on Dec. 2, indicated that he would petition the court for additional time to review the cast ahead of the resentencing hearing scheduled for Dec. 11.
“I wouldn’t engage in delay for delay’s sake because this case is too important to the Menendez brothers,” Hochman said in an interview earlier in November. “It’s too important to the victims’ family members. It’s too important to the public to delay more than necessary to do the review that people should expect from a district attorney.”
Such an analysis of the case would involve reviewing thousands of pages of prison files and transcripts of the months-long trials as well as speaking with law enforcement, prosecutors, defense counsel and victims’ family members, he added.
“Whatever position I ultimately end up taking, people should expect that I spent a long time thinking about it, analyzing the evidence,” Hochman said. “But my 34 years of criminal justice experience — involving hundreds of cases as a prosecutor and a defense attorney — allow me to work quickly and expeditiously in conducting this type of thorough review because I’ve done it in many, many cases before.”
After being arrested for their parents’ deaths in 1990, the Menendez brothers went through two trials where prosecutors argued that they murdered their parents because of greed. However, the siblings testified that they killed their parents in self-defense. The brothers told the jury about the alleged sexual abuse they said they experienced at the hands of their father during an emotional, highly publicized first trial.
Following closing arguments, the jurors spent roughly four days deliberating but failed to come to a unanimous decision. The judge declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to deliver a decision.
In the next and final trial, the presiding judge did not allow the defense to submit some evidence connected to the sexual abuse allegations. Prosecutors argued the brothers were lying about the allegations.
The second jury convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in 1995 and sentenced them to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy in line with voters in yet more states voicing support for abortion rights.
Since 2022, Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens has ruled consistently three times to block the laws while they were disputed in court.
The decision marks another victory for abortion rights advocates after voters in seven states passed measures in support of access.
One Wyoming law that Owens said violated women’s rights under the state constitution bans abortion except to protect a pregnant woman’s life or in cases involving rape and incest. The other made Wyoming the only state to explicitly ban abortion pills, though other states have instituted de facto bans on the medication by broadly prohibiting abortion.
The laws were challenged by four women, including two obstetricians, and two nonprofit organizations. One of the groups, Wellspring Health Access, opened as the state’s first full-service abortion clinic in years in April 2023 following an arson attack in 2022.
“This is a wonderful day for the citizens of Wyoming — and women everywhere who should have control over their own bodies,” Wellspring Health Access President Julie Burkhart said in a statement.
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The recent elections saw voters in Missouri clear the way to undo one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans in a series of victories for abortion rights advocates. Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota, meanwhile, defeated similar constitutional amendments, leaving bans in place.
Abortion rights amendments also passed in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland and Montana. Nevada voters also approved an amendment in support of abortion rights, but they’ll need to pass it again it 2026 for it to take effect. Another that bans discrimination on the basis of “pregnancy outcomes” prevailed in New York.
The abortion landscape underwent a seismic shift in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a ruling that ended a nationwide right to abortion and cleared the way for bans to take effect in most Republican-controlled states.
Currently, 13 states are enforcing bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with limited exceptions, and four have bans that kick in at or about six weeks into pregnancy — often before women realize they’re pregnant.
Nearly every ban has been challenged with a lawsuit. Courts have blocked enforcement of some restrictions, including bans throughout pregnancy in Utah and Wyoming. Judges struck down bans in Georgia and North Dakota in September 2024. Georgia’s Supreme Court ruled the next month that the ban there can be enforced while it considers the case.
In the Wyoming case, the women and nonprofits who challenged the laws argued that the bans stood to harm their health, well-being and livelihoods, claims disputed by attorneys for the state. They also argued the bans violated a 2012 state constitutional amendment saying competent Wyoming residents have a right to make their own health care decisions.
As she had done with previous rulings, Owens found merit in both arguments. The abortion bans “will undermine the integrity of the medical profession by hamstringing the ability of physicians to provide evidence-based medicine to their patients,” Owens ruled.
The abortion laws impede the fundamental right of women to make health care decisions for an entire class of people — those who are pregnant — in violation of the constitutional amendment, Owens ruled.
Wyoming voters approved the amendment amid fears of government overreach following approval of the federal Affordable Care Act and its initial requirements for people to have health insurance.
Attorneys for the state argued that health care, under the amendment, didn’t include abortion. Republican Gov. Mark Gordon, whose administration has defended the laws passed in 2022 and 2023, did not immediately return an email message Monday seeking comment.
Both sides wanted Owens to rule on the lawsuit challenging the abortion bans rather than allow it to go to trial in the spring. A three-day bench trial before Owens was previously set, but won’t be necessary with this ruling.
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