Amazon Prime Video nets monumental streaming deal with the NBA and WNBA

The Walt Disney Company’s existing partnership has been renewed, while Amazon Prime Video and NBCUniversal have both signed new agreements for their slice of the NBA pie. The financial specifics of the transactions remain under wraps, but The Wall Street Journal has reported a cool US$76 billion total acquisition across all three media companies.

According to the NBA’s press release, Disney will continue to distribute NBA and WNBA coverage across its “ESPN-branded assets” in select international markets, Here in Australia, ESPN content can be accessed in a few ways: Fetch, Foxtel, Kayo Sports and the ESPN app all offer live-streamed NBA matches. The official ESPN app is available too, but here in Australia, you need to be a Foxtel, Fetch or Kayo customer to use it. So for those customers, nothing should change.

However, NBA and WNBA fans will have another option for live-streaming games, beginning with the 2025 - 2026 NBA season and the 2026 WNBA season: Amazon Prime Video.

On the NBA front, Amazon Prime Video will offer coverage of 66 regular-season games. All games from the Knockout Rounds of the Emirates NBA Cup, and the tournament’s Semifinals and Finals. It also includes the entire postseason Play-In Tournament, and the Conference Finals (for six years of the 11-year deal.)

For WNBA fans, Amazon Prime Video will offer coverage of 30 regular-season games, including the Championship Game of the Commissioner’s Cup, plus additional coverage of postseason games, one first-round series per year, seven Semifinal series and three WNBA Finals series (over the 11-year deal.)

Representatives at Amazon Australia confirmed with Reviews.org that the NBA games listed will be available to all Amazon Prime members at no extra cost. Still, the streaming giant will also be pushing NBA Leagues Pass through its Amazon Prime Channels feature globally as part of the agreement.