The Inside the NBA team might be taking its talents to ESPN, but NBA coverage on TNT is definitely over. That meant that iconic announcer Kevin Harlan needed a new NBA home for his voice. There was simply no realistic way the arguably best NBA announcer would spend the upcoming season on the sidelines. He's just too good.

With TNT no longer holding broadcast rights for the league, and Amazon and NBC both picking up new broadcast packages, there was bound to be a good amount of deck shuffling ahead of the start of the 2025-26 season.