Amazon broadcast details: Prime Vision, Rapid Recap, more features on platform’s first NBA playoffs coverage

Watching the NBA in 2025-26 has been a significant change for fans.

A new media rights deal kicked in for the NBA this season, meaning that while games are no longer on TNT, they have been on some new or returning platforms, including NBC and Amazon Prime Video.

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For Amazon, the 2026 playoffs will be its first as an NBA partner for the next decade. The entire Play-In Tournament aired on Prime, while additional playoff games are also set to be on the streaming service.

Here’s what to know about Amazon’s NBA broadcasts for the 2026 playoffs, from its technological features to its announcers.

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Amazon Prime NBA broadcast features

According to Amazon, its NBA on Prime broadcasts feature some of the following customizable options and other aspects:

• Personalized bet tracking when FanDuel account is linked (bets cannot be placed directly through Prime Video)
• Multi-view for Prime Video and NBA League Pass subscribers
• «Key moments,» curating important plays with descriptions for recaps
• «Rapid recap,» which curates a highlight reel to bring fans up-to-speed for a game 
• Box score stats + AWS advanced stats in-game
• 1080p High Dynamic Range (HDR) video with 5.1 surround sound

Another aspect that has been a feature of «Thursday Night Football» previously is «Prime Vision,» which debuted for the NBA on Prime in December and «provides distinctive viewpoints from an above-the-rim primary camera angle alongside AI-powered innovations, on-screen graphic overlays, advanced stats, and more,» per Amazon. 

«Prime Vision» can provide real-time, advanced stats throughout a game, but one of its more prominent features comes on the court itself. Amazon’s AI model can determine offensive player vs. defensive player mismatches — using size and skillsets — while in a game, then show viewers those mismatches by projecting a blue circle around the offensive player.

Prime Advantage can show us mismatches LIVE in game.

Look out for the blue circle 🔵 @Kristina_Pink pic.twitter.com/GueCOIXysS

— NBA on Prime (@NBAonPrime) April 11, 2026

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Why are NBA playoff games on Amazon Prime?

The NBA began a new media rights deal in the 2025-26 season that added both NBC and Amazon Prime Video to its rotation for games.

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Prime’s first NBA playoffs as an exclusive streaming partner with the NBA began in April, and the streaming service was also recently the home of every Play-In Tournament game.

According to the NBA, here are the games that will air exclusively on Prime Video in the first round of the 2026 playoffs:

• April 18: Toronto at Cleveland — 1:00 PM ET
• April 18: Minnesota at Denver — 3:30 PM ET
• April 18: Atlanta at New York — 6:00 PM ET
• April 23: New York at Atlanta — 7:00 PM ET
• April 23: Cleveland at Toronto — 8:00 PM ET
• April 23: Denver at Minnesota — 9:30 PM ET
• April 24: Boston at Philadelphia — 7:00 PM ET
• April 24: Los Angeles Lakers at Houston — 8:00 PM ET
• April 24: San Antonio at Portland— 10:30 PM ET

Amazon Prime NBA broadcast crew

Amazon Prime’s NBA playoff broadcasts feature plenty of announcers, analysts and studio members who are already familiar to NBA fans.

The Prime broadcasts’ play-by-play announcers include Ian Eagle, Kevin Harlan and Michael Grady. Analysts on Prime feature Brent Barry, Jim Jackson, Candace Parker and Stan Van Gundy, along with  Dwayne Wade and Steve Nash, who will serve as game analysts, with Nash also contributing to studio coverage.

Other members of the studio coverage team include host Taylor Rooks, plus analysts Blake Griffin, Udonis Haslem, Dirk Nowitzki and Kyle Lowry, the current Philadelphia 76ers guard who will appear on «select shows throughout the postseason,» per Amazon.

Allie Clifton, JayDee Dyer, and Kristina Pink all rotate on sideline reporter duties.

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