The two games that were dependent on the results of the in-season tournament and the knockout round schedule were announced at the conclusion of Group play (see details below).
It was modeled after the WNBA Commissioner's Cup and in-season multi-stage competitions held in European soccer.
On December 9, 2023, the Los Angeles Lakers went undefeated in the tournament to win the inaugural NBA Cup title by beating the Indiana Pacers in the championship game.
[106] ABC's schedule included NBA Saturday Primetime games on selected Saturdays between December and March (including a tripleheader on January 27), and NBA Sunday Showcase games on four selected Sunday afternoons in February and March.
[104] On October 2, 2023, it was announced that five January games originally scheduled as part of ESPN's Wednesday doubleheaders would instead air on ABC.
[107] This season, ESPN and TNT began featuring simulcasts or alternative broadcasts of selected games on ESPN2 and TruTV, respectively.
[108][109] For the NBA in-season tournament, TNT and ESPN aired selected group stage games as part of their regular Tuesday and Friday coverage, respectively.
[104] Four Martin Luther King Jr. Day games were televised nationally, with TNT and NBA TV airing two apiece.
[46][105][106] For the second consecutive season, the league held NBA Rivals Week from January 23 to 27, 2024, with each nationally televised game featuring "classic and budding rivalries between teams and players".
[46] On the final day of the regular season, Sunday, April 14, two games with playoff implications were flexed into ESPN's afternoon doubleheader.
[116] On April 20, 2023, the Phoenix Suns signed a five-year agreement with Gray Television to replace Bally Sports Arizona as their broadcaster.
In response, Phoenix Suns CEO Josh Bartelstein stated that "Diamond's position is totally inaccurate.
[121] On July 14, 2023, the deal became official when Diamond declined to match Gray's contract offer, going forward with the intended plan of theirs, only removing KPHO-TV from the initial list that included KTVK and KPHE.
[125] The following teams reached agreements to sell games to over-the-air stations: In February 2023, Warner Bros.
[137][138] On June 20, 2023, the Jazz reached an agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group owned stations KJZZ-TV and KUTV to become its new television home.
Jazz owner Ryan Smith launched a new in-house production division, SEG Media, to produce the telecasts.
[140] As part of a wave of layoffs, ESPN released analysts Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, and replaced them with Doris Burke and Doc Rivers on the lead announce team with Mike Breen.
The younger Eagle called around 10 games in lieu of Ian and secondary announcer Ryan Ruocco.