The NBA wants to know by the end of this week whether …

Those decisions could crystallize as soon as Friday. According to industry sources, the NBA wants to know by the end of this week whether their preferred choices Amazon and YouTube TV are ready to bid for and house the league’s national streaming RSN in time for the 2026-27 season. Those sources said if Amazon and YouTube TV waffle -- entirely possible if the league can’t guarantee 20 teams will opt into the platform by next fall -- then the NBA will almost certainly delay an aggregated streaming platform another year until the 2027-28 season to provide more time to launch the venture.