NBA

British sports fans will be able to watch multiplatform coverage of the NBA (National Basketball Association) after BT Sport and the NBA reached an agreement for exclusively live television coverage of top NBA games and programming in the UK and Ireland.

The new agreement will see up to 200 games throughout the season, appearing across BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and ESPN. There will be up to seven live games per week throughout the regular season and the first and second rounds of the Playoffs, as well as every game of the Conference Finals, culminating in the NBA Finals in June. Coverage will include weekly games on Sundays in primetime.

One of the highlights of BT Sport’s coverage will be NBA All-Star, which takes place every year in February at the midway point of the NBA season. A global celebration of basketball, NBA All-Star consists of a variety of basketball events and competitions, including the NBA Slam Dunk Contest and Three-Point Contest, culminating in the NBA All-Star Game. The All-Star Game pits the league's star players from the Eastern Conference against their counterparts from the Western Conference.

Also included in the partnership will be several magazine shows:

• NBA Action combines weekly highlights and news
• NBA Inside Stuff will provide fans with a unique insight into the lives of NBA stars both on and off the court
• NBA Tonight, provides an overview of the NBA through interviews and analysis and NBA Countdown, the live game build up show before selected games.

UEFA Champions & Europa Leagues

BT Sport will be the new UK home of UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League football, following a tender process in which BT won the exclusive live broadcast rights to all 350 matches from both tournaments. The rights run for three seasons from 2015/16. This is the first time a single UK broadcaster has won the exclusive live rights to all matches from both tournaments. 

BT Sport will show a selection of these new matches for free on BT Sport, even to homes that have not signed up to the channels. Fans will also be delighted to know that each participating British team will feature for free at least once each season.

Barclays Premier League

BT Sport kicks off 2014 on New Year’s Day with the already announced double header of Southampton against Chelsea at 3pm followed by Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur at 5.30pm.

This is followed by a lunchtime kick off on January 18 with Sunderland v Southampton, both managed by South Americans in the shape of Sunderland’s Gus Poyet and Southampton’s Mauricio Pochettino.

BT Sport’s live Barclays Premier League games in January will include the second of this season’s Merseyside derbies from Anfield on the evening of Tuesday January 28.

The following day, BT Sport brings viewers a mouth-watering match between title hopefuls Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City on Wednesday January 29.

BT Sport Barclays Premier League matches