{"id":752612,"date":"2026-02-14T22:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/752612\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T22:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:59:16","slug":"why-the-nfl-is-irritated-with-nbcs-nba-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/752612\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the NFL is &#8216;irritated&#8217; with NBC&#8217;s NBA contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL is reportedly \u201cirritated\u201d with NBC\u2019s massive TV deal with the NBA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Puck\u2019s John Ourand said Roger Goodell and Co. aren\u2019t thrilled with how much more the rival league is getting for its Sunday night product.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExecutives at the NFL are irritated. [The NBA deal] irritated them,\u201d Ourand said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewmarchand.com\/s\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cThe Main Event with Andrew Marchand\u201d podcast this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that NBC is paying more for \u2018Sunday Night Basketball\u2019 than for \u2018Sunday Night Football.\u2019 These are people and personalities, and it makes the executives at the NFL crazy that that happens. So, could they come in and just start to turn the screw because of that NBA deal?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37393849\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/general-view-nbc-peacock-logo-105963023.jpg\" alt=\"NBC Peacock logo.\" class=\"wp-image-37393849\"  \/>A general view of an NBC peacock logo sign as seen at NBC Studios Headquarters located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, NY on June 4, 2025.  Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>NBA games returned to NBC this season as part of an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/05\/sports\/nbc-espn-amazon-closing-in-on-76-billion-deals-with-nba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11-year media rights deal<\/a> that will see the network pay $2.5 billion per season.<\/p>\n<p>NBC is currently paying around $2 billion for its media package with the NFL, which includes \u201cSunday Night Football,\u201d despite having a much higher viewership than the NBA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The network also recently signed a roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/21\/sports\/nbc-nearing-600m-deal-for-mlbs-sunday-night-baseball-package\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$600 million deal with MLB<\/a> to become the home of \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d and Wild Card playoff games for the next three seasons, in addition to its existing deals with college football, golf, the WNBA, the Olympics and Premier League Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>With the NFL potential media rights opt-outs coming in 2029 and 2030, NBC could be forced to make some tough decisions \u2013 and write some big checks, Ourand said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38492922\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-speaks-120807919.jpg\" alt=\"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks at a press conference.\" class=\"wp-image-38492922\"  \/>Roger Goodell and the NFL partner with NBC for \u201cSunday Night Football.\u201d IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shakes out with the networks paying a ton more money to the NFL. A ton more,\u201d said Ourand. \u201cWe\u2019ve always talked about that line for the other leagues, who are the haves, who are the have-nots? That line is going to be much more defined once these rights come out, because all of a sudden, you have the Premier League that\u2019s coming to market with all of its games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNBC is going to pay a lot more, and they\u2019re going to be paying for the NFL, they\u2019re paying for the NBA. Can they afford something that\u2019s really weekend morning programming in the Premier League? You have baseball that\u2019s coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL is reportedly \u201cirritated\u201d with NBC\u2019s massive TV deal with the NBA.\u00a0 Puck\u2019s John Ourand said Roger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,155,1372,6,9,10,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-752612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nbc-sports","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-entertainment","14":"tag-sports-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116071470722433084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}