The world of soccer has long used in-season tournaments and WNBA has had great success with it recently, but it is a whole new thing for the NBA. Read on to learn how you can follow the whole month-long event!
In a hurry? The nationally broadcast games of the NBA In-Season Tournament will air on ESPN and TNT, which you can get for just $40.00/mo with Sling Orange. Save 50% on your first month!
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The NBA In-Season Tournament starts on Friday, November 3rd. The group stage runs through Tuesday, November 28th. There will be 7 knockout games after that: 4 quarterfinals, 2 semifinals, and 1 final.
All 30 NBA teams will take part in the In-Season Tournament. The winning team gets the NBA Cup.
How to Watch the NBA In-Season Tournament
Many of the Group Play games will be broadcast nationally on ESPN and TNT. Two will also be broadcast on NBA TV. All the knockout games will be nationally broadcast. We assume these will also be on ESPN and TNT, but we don’t yet know. We will update this page when we do.
The rest of these games will air locally and on NBA League Pass. The local games will air on the teams’ RSNs. For complete information on this, see our NBA viewer’s guide.
For out-of-market fans, see our NBA League Pass review for all the details about it.
Streaming the In-Season Tournament
There are a number of streaming services that will allow you to stream the In-Season tournament — most notably DIRECTV STREAM and Fubo. But they are notably more expensive than our top choice: Sling TV.
The Sling Orange plan costs $40.00/mo (and just half that for the first month). It comes with both ESPN and TNT. If you also want NBA TV, you can get it along with other channels in the Sports Extra add-on for $11/mo. And if you want to watch almost all the games, you can do so by adding NBA League Pass as an add-on for $14.99/mo. It allows you to watch all out-of-market games.
If you are focused on one local team, you will need to get the team’s RSN. Sling TV doesn’t offer any of these. The reason is simple: these are the most expensive channels to license, so you simply don’t find them with low-cost streaming services — or usually even with high-cost streaming services!
What Does Sling TV Come With?
The Sling Orange plan comes with 32 total channels. In addition to TNT and ESPN, it comes with The Disney Channel, ESPN2, ESPN3, Freeform, MotorTrend, and QVC.
And it comes with A&E, AMC, AXS TV, BBC America, BET, Bloomberg TV, Charge!, CNN, Cartoon Network (Adult Swim), Comedy Central, Comet, Food Network, Fuse, HGTV, History Channel, IFC, Investigation Discovery (ID), Lifetime, Local Now, MGM+ Drive-In, Nick Jr, TBS, Travel Channel, and Vice.
The plan also comes with a cloud DVR featuring 50 hours of storage.
One downside is that you are limited to streaming on a single device. But it supports pretty much all devices in use today including: Amazon Fire TV, Android mobile, Android TV-based smart TVs, Apple TV, Chromecast, iOS, LG, Samsung, and Vizio smart TVs, web browsers, and Xbox gaming systems.
2023 NBA Play-In Tournament Schedule
Friday, November 3
- : Cleveland vs Indiana
- : New York vs Milwaukee (ESPN)
- : Washington vs Miami
- : Brooklyn vs Chicago
- : Golden State vs Oklahoma City
- : Dallas vs Denver (ESPN)
- : Memphis vs Portland
Friday, November 10
- : Philadelphia vs Detroit
- : Charlotte vs Washington
- : Brooklyn vs Boston (ESPN)
- : New Orleans vs Houston
- : Utah vs Memphis
- : Minnesota vs San Antonio
- : LA Clippers vs Dallas
- : LA Lakers vs Phoenix (ESPN)
- : Oklahoma City vs Sacramento
Tuesday, November 14
- : Miami vs Charlotte
- : Atlanta vs Detroit
- : Indiana vs Philadelphia
- : San Antonio vs Oklahoma City (TNT)
- : Orlando vs Brooklyn
- : Dallas vs New Orleans
- : Portland vs Utah
- : LA Clippers vs Denver (TNT)
- : Minnesota vs Golden State
- : Memphis vs LA Lakers
Friday, November 17
- : Milwaukee vs Charlotte
- : New York vs Washington
- : Philadelphia vs Atlanta (ESPN?)
- : Sacramento vs San Antonio (ESPN?)
- : Detroit vs Cleveland
- : Boston vs Toronto
- : Orlando vs Chicago
- : Denver vs New Orleans
- : LA Lakers vs Portland
- : Phoenix vs Utah (ESPN)
- : Houston vs LA Clippers
Tuesday, November 21
- : Toronto vs Orlando
- : Indiana vs Atlanta
- : Cleveland vs Philadelphia (TNT)
- : Portland vs Phoenix
- : Utah vs LA Lakers (TNT)
Friday, November 24
- : Boston vs Orlando (NBA TV)
- : Phoenix vs Memphis (NBA TV)
- : Miami vs New York (ESPN)
- : Chicago vs Toronto
- : Detroit vs Indiana
- : Denver vs Houston
- : Washington vs Milwaukee
- : Sacramento vs Minnesota
- : San Antonio vs Golden State (ESPN)
- : New Orleans vs LA Clippers
Tuesday, November 28
- : Milwaukee vs Miami (TNT)
- : Chicago vs Boston
- : Toronto vs Brooklyn
- : Atlanta vs Cleveland
- : Charlotte vs New York
- : Oklahoma City vs Minnesota
- : Houston vs Dallas
- : Golden State vs Sacramento (TNT)
Wrapping Up
The 2023 NBA Play-In Tournament will probably become a big deal in the years ahead. And with as much as a half million dollars on the line for each player on the winning team, we are likely to see them at their best. Don’t miss out with Sling TV!
He got his start in Atmospheric Physics and remote sensing where he created software for point-to-point streaming of video and other data. Since that time, Frank has worked as a tech writer specializing in the nexus of technology and entertainment. His other passion is low-budget and "weird" films, which you can read about at Psychotronic Review.
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