{"id":853904,"date":"2026-08-13T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:12:10","slug":"jason-benetti-adding-nba-games-to-nbc-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853904\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Benetti adding NBA games to NBC role"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBC Sports is expanding Jason Benetti\u2019s role.<\/p>\n

The network\u2019s lead Sunday Night Baseball voice will call a mix of regular-season and playoff NBA games this coming season, as first reported by Front Office Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Benetti made his NBA on NBC debut this past April<\/a>, calling Game 2 of the Celtics\u2019 first-round series against the 76ers alongside Robbie Hummel<\/a> and Jordan Cornette<\/a>. It marked his first national NBA broadcast since Game 1 of a Trail Blazers-Nuggets playoff series in 2021, which he called remotely for ESPN.<\/p>\n

As FOS reports, Benetti won\u2019t be supplanting any of the announcers already in NBC\u2019s rotation, a stable that includes Mike Tirico<\/a>, Noah Eagle<\/a>, Terry Gannon<\/a>, and Michael Grady<\/a>. Instead, he\u2019s reportedly expected to call somewhere between 10 and 20 NBA games over the course of the season, with the exact number depending on how the schedule shakes out around his baseball commitments.<\/p>\n

When NBC signed Benetti in March<\/a> to anchor its return to baseball for the first time since 2000, it was widely understood he\u2019d be calling other sports for the network as well. NBC currently holds a sprawling sports portfolio, including Sunday Night Football, Sunday Night Basketball, Big Ten football on Saturday nights, Notre Dame football through 2029, Big Ten, Big East, and Big 12 basketball, and of course, Sunday Night Baseball.<\/p>\n

Just how much of the network\u2019s broader portfolio Benetti would essentially call was still an open question as recently as June. Appearing on the Sports Media Watch Podcast two months into his Sunday Night Baseball tenure, Benetti admitted the conversation about his other assignments hadn\u2019t even happened yet, with the baseball launch consuming all of his attention in the meantime.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not discussed packages or anything,\u201d Benetti said<\/a>, \u201clike football or basketball, is what I know, but I don\u2019t know the rest of it. We\u2019ve been so singularly focused on the baseball thing. I knew I was going to be part of the other sports \u2014 it would\u2019ve been very difficult for me to do if it was just baseball \u2014 so I know I\u2019m going to be a part of it, but I truly, legitimately have not had the conversation. It\u2019s coming down the pike at some point in the next month; I\u2019d imagine we\u2019ll have the conversation about what it\u2019s going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

That conversation now appears to have happened, at least where the NBA is concerned. Whether it extends to college football, the sport Benetti called for Fox\u2019s No. 2 team alongside Robert Griffin III, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

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