{"id":2253666,"date":"2026-01-27T23:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2253666"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:52:20","slug":"nbc-makes-a-splashy-new-hire-for-its-nba-coverage-caitlin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nbc-makes-a-splashy-new-hire-for-its-nba-coverage-caitlin-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Makes a Splashy New Hire for Its NBA Coverage: Caitlin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NBC Sports<\/a> is adding arguably the biggest star in the WNBA to its roster.<\/p>\n

The network said that Indiana Fever<\/a> point guard Caitlin Clark<\/a> will join its coverage of the NBA this season as a special contributor.<\/p>\n

Clark<\/a> will make her on-air NBC<\/a> debut on the network\u2019s pregame show Basketball Night in America live at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Feb. 1 at 6 p.m. Et ahead of the debut of Sunday Night Basketball, which will see the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> take on the New York Knicks<\/a>, and will return for another game in March.<\/p>\n

Clark will join the hall-of-famer studio hosts Carmelo Anthony<\/a>, Vince Carter<\/a> and Tracy McGrady<\/a> on the program alongside host Maria Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited to be part of the Basketball Night in America crew this season,\u201d said Clark. \u201cCarmelo<\/a>, Vince, and Tracy are legends of the game and Maria is a true professional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NBC Sports is adding arguably the biggest star in the WNBA to its roster. The network said that Indiana Fever point guard Caitlin Clark will join its coverage of the NBA this season as a special contributor. Clark will make her on-air NBC debut on the network\u2019s pregame show Basketball Night in America live at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2253667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2253666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NBC-Makes-a-Splashy-New-Hire-for-Its-NBA-Coverage.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253668,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253666\/revisions\/2253668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}