Five NBA teams decide back in Fanduel Sports Network

The five NBA teams, who could have left Fanduel Sports Network this spring, choose the 2025-26 season, which means that the parent company Main Street Sports Group of the network will keep its full board of 13 franchise companies for the immediate future.

The contracts for the Hawks, Cavaliers, Heat and Bucks had expired after this last season, and these four teams – together with the T'wolves, who said that sources had a contract early – were supposedly convinced that the Main Street was soluble five months after appearing from bankruptcy. It is even more decisive that the NBA is still not ready to unveil its national RSN streaming RSN, and leave these teams a simple choice: return and stable, yet immersed rights, or try the less lucrative over-the air route. The five teams chose the Main Street.

“Fanduel Sports Network is pleased to continue to deliver extraordinary programs for our 13 NBA team partners through a flexible, multiple platform range, which easily access the fans and reach 100% of the local markets of the teams,” said a spokesman for the main road sports group on Monday evening. “We will continue to work with the NBA and our team partners to innovate the viewing experience and to promote commitment.”

Main Street's statement corresponds to the continuing efforts of the company to represent and expand its streaming functions. In its parking spaces to NBA teams, the Main Street has pushed back the idea that RSNs are only available to the limited audience due to levels and carriage disputes. Instead, the company has made it clear that every Fanduel Sports Network game is available through its app or as a first-class video add-on-on channel that it has a 100% local range.

In order to support its claims, the network recently published its direct-to-consumer numbers. The DTC subscription base has doubled in the last eight to 650,000 paid subscribers and it is on the right track to reach 1 million DTC subs by the end of 2025. In addition, the DTC service with an average watch DTC-DTC-DTC-DTC-DTC-DTC-DTC service has 92.5 with an average DTC service. Cable audience.

Sources said that the league was later confident in the short -term livelihood of Main Street, although two important points are unclear. First, it is not known whether the five teams in which decided had to do at least two seasons, as was originally a mandate of the main street. Most teams preferred only one year-old opt-in. Second, there is still no word whether the teams had to take significant haircuts for the rights.

For example, the right-wing fee of the HAWKs decreased from the 2023 to 24 season to the 2024-25 season from USD $ 32.03. The right -wing fee of the Cavaliers during this period dropped from $ 37.84 million to $ 34.80 million. The heat of $ 57.03 million $ 55.46 million; the goats from USD 27.08 million to USD 24.27 million; And the T'wolves from USD 25.9 million to USD 24.18 million. The question now is whether these new offers are equipped with similar deficits.

The other Eight Main Street Teams Are the Hornets (Contract Expires After the 2025-26 Season, Next Year's Rights Fee Is $ 16.57m), Pistons (Contract Expires Afer 2027-28; Next Year's Rights Fee $ 25.78m), Pacers (Expires Aft Afters Season; Next Year's Rights Fee $ 17.47), Clipperes 2026-27; NEXT YEAR $ 34.59m) (from 2025-26 next year, Thunder (run after 2026-27; 2025-26 season, next year $ 26.19 million) and Spurs (run after 2026-27, next year 19.92 million $).

According to sources, all 13 teams are said to have been instructed by the league office to remain patient. First you will have the national money for media rights next season (142 million US dollars for each team with annual increase in increases in 7% for the 10 seasons afterwards). Second, the National Streaming RSN will probably arrive at the latest in 2027 at the latest, since sources said that the league continues to negotiate a home for the platform with Amazon, Apple, YouTube and potentially Roku and ESPN's new DTC app. Sources said that the league also believes that these two sources of income will be more than sufficient to overcome the decline in local rights fees and ultimately remedy the local TV puzzle. At this point, the league then turns to the expansion.