Basketball Hall of Famer Vince Carter will join NBC Sports as a studio analyst when the NBA debuts on Peacock in October for the 2025-26 season. On Tuesday, the network announced that the eight-time All-Star will be in the studio at least once a week during the playoffs and will often work alongside Carmelo Anthony.

Carter will be in studio one or more nights per week through the playoffs when the NBA returns to NBC and debuts on Peacock in October.

Aside from Carter, Anthony and Jordan, NBC has made several other hires with the NBA returning to the network for the first time since 2002. Reggie Miller and Jamal Crawford will be lead game analysts, while Mike Tirico and Noah Eagle will be play-by-play announcers.

Michael Jordan is joining NBC Sports as a special contributor to its NBA coverage when the 2025-26 season begins.

NBC will launch a fall 2025 schedule dominated by three nights of live sports - most notably, the arrival of the NBA on Tuesday nights in October. "The NBA is a huge priority for us," Jeff Bader, NBCUniversal Entertainment's president,

The NBA era on NBC is officially starting this fall, and we are getting a taste of what the network schedule will look like with professional basketball taking over its primetime. I say “a taste” because NBC today is only announcing its fall schedule for the first six weeks of the season,

NBC has greenlit a new comedy series starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe, which leads the network's 2025-26 alongside the NBA. The new series, titled "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins," focuses on a disgraced former football player (Morgan),

As they unveiled a fall 2025 schedule heavy on live sports, NBC execs admitted they had to make some tough calls as they made room for the arrival of the NBA on Tuesday nights. That included the cancellation last week of "Found,