Nowitzki – a member of the NBA’s seventy fifth anniversary staff – will function an analyst for the primary time.
CULVER CITY, Calif. — Taylor Rooks, Blake Griffin and Dirk Nowitzki will probably be a part of the Prime Video studio present when the streamer begins its NBA protection subsequent season.
Griffin, who retired in April after a 15-year taking part in profession, was on the prime of everybody’s checklist. NBC, which can return to NBA video games when the 11-year media rights deal begins in October, and ESPN had been additionally fascinated with him.
Griffin was the primary total decide of the Los Angeles Clippers within the 2009 NBA Draft and was named the league’s Rookie of the 12 months in 2011. Along with profitable the 2011 Slam Dunk Contest, when he dove on a automotive Parked, he was a six-time All-Star and five-time All-NBA choice.
Nowitzki – a member of the NBA’s seventy fifth anniversary staff – may even function an analyst for the primary time. The 14-time All-Star and 2007 NBA Most Worthwhile Participant performed 21 seasons, all with the Dallas Mavericks, earlier than retiring in 2019. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2023.
Rooks is a reporter for Prime Video’s “Thursday Night time Soccer” in addition to a number and reporter for Bleacher Report and TNT.
The studio present will probably be primarily based in Culver Metropolis, California, on the Amazon MGM Studios lot.
Prime Video will provide 66 video games in the course of the common season, together with all present NBA Cup quarterfinal video games. It additionally hosts all play-in event video games, first and second spherical playoff video games, and one of many convention finals in six of the 11 years.
