LeBron between two cities and LaMelo in Minnesota: ESPN's busiest NBA week
Fifteen uploads in the week after media day, from Karl-Anthony Towns' contract talks to a Brian Windhorst segment called Windy Watch.
NBA on ESPNStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
LeBron will spilt his time between NY & Philly this season per Dave McMenamin.
Twenty-eight hours after it went up, a short clip carrying Dave McMenamin's report was past 160,000 views. Its title, "LeBron will spilt his time between NY & Philly this season per Dave McMenamin.", says nearly everything about where the NBA conversation sits as camps open. McMenamin has covered LeBron James for ESPN for years, so it is no surprise his reporting is the one people are clicking.
The rest of the fifteen uploads read like a map of the moves around the league. Malika Andrews' NBA Today put Kendrick Perkins, Chiney Ogwumike and Vincent Goodwill on "Faces in New Places," which works through Giannis in Miami, AJ Dybantsa in Washington, Walker Kessler with the Lakers and, at greatest length, LaMelo Ball in Minnesota. That segment is the channel's second-busiest video right now, only a day old. A day earlier the show had looked at Karl-Anthony Towns' extension talks with the Knicks and at Jalen Duren's future in Detroit. A Heat clip about a "scary" duo and Luka Dončić's thoughts on the new-look Lakers filled in the edges.
Together they have the channel drawing well over twice its usual daily views. In the wider group of league and sports-media channels, The Pat McAfee Show and Speakeasy are also having a big stretch, while FOX Sports is running below its usual pace.
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- Channel
- NBA on ESPN
- Subscribers
- 2,180,000
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- September 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 161,118
- Views on its first day
- 137,762
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