Streaming service reportedly making pitch to Pacers, several other NBA teams

INDIANAPOLIS -- The 2025-26 season marks the end of the Pacers' relationship with FanDuel Sports Network Indiana. Next season, fans might be able to find them on network or a channel created by Fubo. Fubo, the sports TV streaming service owned by Disney, is making a pitch to the Pacers and the 12 other NBA teams who lost their regional television broadcast homes with the winding down of Main Street Sports Inc according to a report from Tom Friend of the Sports Business Journal.

According to the report, Fubo is pitching the teams on a “hybrid direct-to-distributor and direct-to-consumer model” that would provide teams rights fees in the neighborhood of $10 million. Earlier this month the 13 teams that had regional rights deals with Main Streets Sports Inc. were told by the NBA that they should seek new local and regional broadcast partners for the 2026-27 season with Main Street winding down.

Main Street was formed following the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Diamond Sports Group in March of 2023 and it quickly struggled to make rights fees payments to teams. The NBA reportedly told teams that they would receive some of their lost fees. The NBA is also reportedly working on putting together its own regional sports television hub but it has informed the teams it will not be able to pull that off in time for the 2026-27 season so they suggested signing rights contracts either for one year or with opt-outs after one year.

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