This would involve the ousting of TNT Sports - owned by Warner Bros. Discovery - as a domestic NBA rights partner, according to the Wall Street Journal, with TNT currently paying $1.2 billion per year through 2024-25. A $2.5 billion tie-up with NBC would represent the annual rights fee more than doubling.

Comcast's NBCUniversal is planning to invest an average of about $2.5 billion a year to broadcast a package of National Basketball Association games, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Comcast’s NBCUniversal is prepared to pay an average of about $2.5 billion a year to air a package of National Basketball Association games, as rival Warner Bros. Discovery makes last-ditch

C omcast’s NBC Universal is prepping a huge bid to take over TNT’s role of the NBA national broadcaster. The Wall Street Journal broke the news Monday, with Deadline reporting details afterward. Turner has broadcast NBA games since 1988,