Mike Tirico has been named the lead play-by-play broadcaster for NBC's coverage of the NBA starting with the 2025-2026 season.

NBC announced on Wednesday that Mike Tirico will work as the lead play-by-play announcer for the network's NBA coverage, which begins next season.

Tirico, who joined NBC in 2016, also leads coverage of the network’s NFL, Olympics, and golf programming. He previously worked at ESPN, where NBA play-by-play was one of his responsibilities. NBC will have multiple games per week after the football season ends, so it will have multiple broadcast teams.

Mike Tirico, who had covered the NBA for 15 seasons with ESPN, will serve as play-by-play announcer for NBC's coverage of NBA games.

The defending champions start up a back-to-back in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 22 when the Boston Celtics visit the LA Clippers at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif.

There is NBA action on Wednesday, Jan. 22 with a rematch of last season’s Western Conference Finals with the Dallas Mavericks hosting the Minnesota Timberwolves at American Airlines Center in Dallas.

Let’s go, Orange! S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications graduate Mike Tirico, who called NBA games for ESPN from 2002-16, is returning to NBA coverage as NBC Sports' lead play-by-play voice, when NBC and Peacock’s coverage of pro hoops tips off this October.

Tirico, one of the most prominent sports broadcasters trained at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a member of the university’s Board of Trustees, will be NBC Sports’ lead play-by-play voice when its coverage of the league begins with the 2025-26 season in October.

NBC Sports broadcaster Mike Tirico wrapped up his NFL season on Sunday, calling the NFC divisional playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. While it was the last NFL game he’ll cover this season, Tirico’s busy schedule for the rest of the year is far from over.

But the timing couldn’t have been more perfect for Mike Tirico in the fourth quarter, as the NBC announcer perfectly foreshadowed Barkley’s monster 78-yard, game-winning touchdown. With just ...

But before he did, NBC announcers Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth did some pretty on-the-nose game-calling themselves. Late in the fourth quarter of the Eagles’ 28-22 playoff win, Barkley ...