Sky Sports to continue screening NBA

Sky Sports has today announced that they have created a new agreement with the NBA, which will see weekly live games broadcast for the remainder of the current season.

The extensive coverage includes live Sunday night games, including double-headers on most weekends, NBA play-offs, the entire Eastern Conference Finals and every match from the NBA Finals in June.

The agreement adds the NBA to a stellar Sky Sports schedule for 2013 the broadcaster states.

The network also currently broadcasts the British and Irish Lions Tour of Australia, two Ashes series, The Masters, The Solheim Cup, games from the Barclays Premier League, UEFA Champions League and Heineken Cup, and every race in the Formula 1 calendar.

[Reported by Mike Watkins]