Following the piece published on 16/08/2025 entitled “Where to watch live TV and stream the NBA 2025/2026 in Italy” we had remained in stand-by As for the situation linked to rights acquired by Walt Disney Company.
What the Walt Disney Company purchased
By reporting what is communicated by the NBA, the games that Walt Disney Company has purchased are the following:
- All NBA Finals Exclusively, plus 10 exclusive series of NBA conference finals until 2035
- Exclusive packages of the games of the first and second round of the NBA playoffs
- Rights to launch a new NBA studio show with full game evenings coverage
- Packets NBA Saturday Primetime e NBA Sunday Showcase
- NBA Draft, NBA Draft Lottery e dell’NBA All-Star Celebrity Gam
- Wednesday and some games of the Friday
- All five games of NBA Christmas Day; exclusive national coverage of the last day of the regular season
- Games of the G League and the Summer League
Disney issue in Italy
We can now answer the question if Disney+ will transmit theNBA in some selected markets of Europe and in particular toItalia.
The answer that has been provided to us is No: Disney+ does not have the rights of NBA for Italy.
It now remains to be understood if and consequently where its “package” of rights can be seen: on the table there are Sky Sport e Prime Video (also owners of rights until 20235/2036) and also DAZN Given the recent agreement with Walt Disney Company / Espn for the transmission of the NCAA basketball and football championships.
