NBA Action is a weekly show with news and highlights of the NBA. The show premiered in 1990 on ESPN. It airs on NBA TV with new episodes at 6:30 ET/5:30 CT every Thursday night during the season.

Features (not in chronological order)

• Western Conference Team of the Week

• Instant replay (weekly NBA News)

• Timeout (Player Features)

• Eastern Conference Team of the Week

• Encore (showcasing the best plays during the week that didn't make the Courtside Countdown including buzzer beaters, long range shots, alley oops, assists, dunks, circus shots, blocks)

• Spotlight (special features on players, teams or great moments in the NBA)

• Sounds of the Game

• Courtside Countdown (showcasing the Top 10 Plays, Dunks, Buzzer Beaters, Assists and Blocks during the week)

Hosts

• Jim Fagan (1990–2004)

• Spero Dedes (2004–2005)

• Ian Eagle (2005–present)

• Rich Ackerman (2003–2026; occasional host)

Video games

There was a series of video games released by Sega Sports for the Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear and Sega Saturn with the name NBA Action.

• NBA Action '94 (Genesis)

• NBA Action '95 (Game Gear and Genesis)

• NBA Action (1996) (Saturn)

• NBA Action 98 (Saturn and PC)

International broadcasts

By region

Latin America

• ESPN

• Fox Sports

• BeIN Sports

• DIRECTV Sports

• Telecanal Plus (Argentina) Saturday at 02:00 pm

• TV CABLE (Ecuador)

• TVC Deportes (México) Friday at 11:00 pm

• Unicanal Plus (Paraguay) Saturday at 02:00 pm

• Telecable TV (Peru) Sunday at 07:00 pm

• VTV Plus (Uruguay) Saturday at 02:00 pm

• Meridiano TV (Venezuela) Sunday at 08:00 pm

• Canal 4 (El Salvador) (Voice-over translation) Thursday at 07:00 pm

Brazil

• ESPN

• Fox Sports

• Rede Record (Sunday at 11:30 pm in Free TV)

Philippines

• ABS-CBN (2018)

• Basketball TV (2006–2019)

• GMA Network (1988–1996)

• IBC (1996–2001, 2002–2004)

• NBA Premium TV (2010–2019)

• NBN (2001–2002)

• S+A (2014–2019)

• Solar TV (2009–2011)

• Studio 23 (2011–2013)

Europe

• Sky Sports (United Kingdom/Ireland)

• Sky Sport (Italy)

• C More/TV4 (Sweden) Airs in news and documentary orientated sports channel Sportkanalen

• TV 2 (Denmark)

• Canal+ Premium (Poland)

• ESPN (The Netherlands)

• SportTv (Hungary)

External links

• About the Show