{"id":548141,"date":"2026-01-28T02:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/548141\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T02:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:08:16","slug":"nbc-hires-caitlin-clark-for-nba-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/548141\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Hires Caitlin Clark for NBA Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc_1\" data-tag=\"nbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sports\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sports_1\" data-tag=\"sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports<\/a> is adding arguably the biggest star in the WNBA to its roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe network said that Indiana Fever point guard Caitlin Clark will join its coverage of the NBA this season as a special contributor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tClark will make her on-air NBC debut on the network\u2019s pregame show Basketball Night in America\u00a0live at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Feb. 1\u00a0at 6 p.m. ET ahead of the debut of\u00a0Sunday Night Basketball, which will see the Los Angeles Lakers take on the New York Knicks, and will return for another game in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tClark will join the hall-of-famer studio hosts Carmelo Anthony,\u00a0Vince Carter\u00a0and\u00a0Tracy McGrady on the program alongside host Maria Taylor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m really excited to be part of the\u00a0Basketball Night in America\u00a0crew this season,\u201d said Clark. \u201cCarmelo, Vince, and Tracy are legends of the game and Maria is a true professional. It will be really fun to join them a few times this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cCaitlin is one of the most captivating players and dynamic scorers in basketball,\u201d added Sam Flood, executive producer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nbc-sports\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc-sports_1\" data-tag=\"nbc-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC Sports<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to have Caitlin join Hall of Famers Melo, Vince, Tracy and Reggie in New York for the launch of Sunday Night Basketball.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tClark, of course, will be a regular on NBC once the WNBA season tips off in May, but the network is betting that she can bring some added firepower to its NBA studio show too. NBC has also hired Michael Jordan to make occasional appearances as a special contributor, joining what has become a stacked cast of former NBA stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC Sports is adding arguably the biggest star in the WNBA to its roster. The network said that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":548142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1030,69001,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-548141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-nbc","9":"tag-nbc-sports","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115970291108360380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}