I won four NBA championships with Steph Curry – now ESPN, NBC and Amazon want me ahead of $76 billion TV deal
Draymond Green knows his future is in sports media. Having already made regular appearances on TNT’s coverage of the NBA, the four-time NBA champion is part of a talent pursuit by the incoming media partners. Green (right) has won four NBA titles alongside CurryGetty Golden State Warriors star Green is preparing for a career in TV once his time in the NBA finishes. The 34-year-old has reportedly already held exploratory talks with incoming media partners NBC Sports, Amazon Prime Video, and ESPN, with his agent Josh Pyatt confirming to Front Office Sports that, “He [Green] looks at media as a big part of his future.” “He is excited about the opportunities that exist out there for him.” The 2025-26 NBA TV rights deal totals $76 billion and includes ESPN, the returning NBC and newcomers Amazon. The trio of networks are all looking to sweep up talent ahead of the new deal and Green is a target for all three. The TV deal was signed back in July and will last for 11 years, but the new terms controversially saw Warner Bros not get their rights extended despite a desire to do so. It put popular show Inside the NBA on TNT at risk, a show Green has regularly appeared on, but after a licensing deal with ESPN the show will air on its network next season. While the deal will begin in the fall for the new season, it is up to the Warriors’ power forward to decide when he will retire. With two years left on his contract that will see him rake in $52.6 million, such money could make it hard for the 2017 Defensive Player of the Year to walk away. Although the likelihood of Green seeing out his contract is not particularly high, it was only at the end of 2023 that the 34-year-old claimed he was thinking about retiring following his indefinite suspension. Draymond Green has appeared as an analyst before, working with TNT His Warriors are one of the NBA’s greatest dynasties “I told him I don’t want to do this anymore. This doesn’t serve me anymore,” Green said in an interview with ESPN. “It wasn’t that I was contemplating to do it right then. But I was [thinking] I probably got a year left and I’m done.” Another option on the cards for the Warriors’ power-forward is to balance media work with his playing career. It was Drew Brees, who won the Super Bowl in 2010, who signed a multiyear contract with NBC while still playing for the New Orleans Saints. ESPN, Amazon and NBC have already lined up a lot of their main talents for the upcoming season. Prime Video announced Taylor Rooks, Blake Griffin and Dirk Nowitzki will lead Amazon’s coverage. This new $76 billion TV deal will see Disney’s ESPN/ABC combine for around 100 regular season games along with exclusive coverage of the NBA finals.
Draymond Green knows his future is in sports media.
Having already made regular appearances on TNT’s coverage of the NBA, the four-time NBA champion is part of a talent pursuit by the incoming media partners.
Golden State Warriors star Green is preparing for a career in TV once his time in the NBA finishes.
The 34-year-old has reportedly already held exploratory talks with incoming media partners NBC Sports, Amazon Prime Video, and ESPN, with his agent Josh Pyatt confirming to Front Office Sports that, “He [Green] looks at media as a big part of his future.”
“He is excited about the opportunities that exist out there for him.”
The 2025-26 NBA TV rights deal totals $76 billion and includes ESPN, the returning NBC and newcomers Amazon.
The trio of networks are all looking to sweep up talent ahead of the new deal and Green is a target for all three.
The TV deal was signed back in July and will last for 11 years, but the new terms controversially saw Warner Bros not get their rights extended despite a desire to do so.
It put popular show Inside the NBA on TNT at risk, a show Green has regularly appeared on, but after a licensing deal with ESPN the show will air on its network next season.
While the deal will begin in the fall for the new season, it is up to the Warriors’ power forward to decide when he will retire.
With two years left on his contract that will see him rake in $52.6 million, such money could make it hard for the 2017 Defensive Player of the Year to walk away.
Although the likelihood of Green seeing out his contract is not particularly high, it was only at the end of 2023 that the 34-year-old claimed he was thinking about retiring following his indefinite suspension.
“I told him I don’t want to do this anymore. This doesn’t serve me anymore,” Green said in an interview with ESPN.
“It wasn’t that I was contemplating to do it right then. But I was [thinking] I probably got a year left and I’m done.”
Another option on the cards for the Warriors’ power-forward is to balance media work with his playing career.
It was Drew Brees, who won the Super Bowl in 2010, who signed a multiyear contract with NBC while still playing for the New Orleans Saints.
ESPN, Amazon and NBC have already lined up a lot of their main talents for the upcoming season. Prime Video announced Taylor Rooks, Blake Griffin and Dirk Nowitzki will lead Amazon’s coverage.
This new $76 billion TV deal will see Disney’s ESPN/ABC combine for around 100 regular season games along with exclusive coverage of the NBA finals.
