Basketball

Mark Walter, owner of multiple sports properties including the LA Dodgers, has agreed a world record $10bn (€8.7bn) deal to buy the Los Angeles Lakers NBA franchise from the Buss family.

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has announced a multi-year renewal of its Scripps Sports media rights deal, a staple of the league’s Friday night coverage. 

The 2K arm of Take-Two Interactive has reached an agreement to extend and expand deals with the NBA and WNBA, including the launch of a content venture.

Monumental Sports & Entertainment has agreed a deal with Cisco focusing on helping to deliver an “unparalleled experience for fans” through the $800m (€702.9m) revamp of Capital One Arena.

Social media platform Pinterest has made its first entry into sport sponsorship with Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) team New York Liberty.

As it celebrates its 25th birthday, Euroleague Basketball finds itself, temporarily at least, in defensive mode

Euroleague Basketball remains open to selling a minority stake in the organisation to a private equity firm, despite a failed process with BC Partners towards the end of 2024.

TF1 is the new domestic free-to-air broadcaster for French national basketball team games at major Fiba competitions in an agreement that runs to 2029.

The 2025 Women’s National Basketball Association season began last week with a ratings record, once again set in a game featuring Caitlin Clark.

Mediapro Asia will call on its experience of distributing media rights to 3x3 basketball in a new agreement with the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) to help commercialise the shorter-form variation of the sport.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has taken strides to elevate the status of the Women's World Cup through a scheduling switch that eases the involvement of the top players from the WNBA.

Charter Communications and Cox Communications, two of the largest providers in the United States cable media market, have announced plans to merge.

Washington-based Vanda Pharmaceuticals has announced a deal to be the new jersey patch sponsor of Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) team, the Washington Mystics.

The process to launch a controversial new professional men's basketball league in Great Britain is under way, with teams being sought in 10 cities

Broadcasters have been given until May 29 to submit their first rounds bids for domestic rights to Italy's Lega Basket Serie A.

The Portland Trail Blazers is the next National Basketball Association franchise to hit the market, with the team put up for sale by the estate of the late Paul Allen