NBA Gametime Live is a television program, that is the flagship program of NBA TV

NBA TV

NBA TV is a television specialty channel that is dedicated to showcasing the sport of basketball in the United States. The network is financially backed by the National Basketball Association , which also uses NBA TV as a way of advertising their out of market package NBA League Pass, and partner...

. The show began airing on October 30th, 2008.

Background

The show has a studio host, and various studio analysts. The show airs live, and provides the viewer live look-in's in NBA

National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

 games, where they show a team's actual broadcast, analysis, interviews, and break news. The show airs live six days a week, not airing on Thursdays due to the NBA's commitment to The NBA on TNT

The NBA on TNT

The NBA on TNT is Turner Network Television's coverage of the National Basketball Association, produced by Turner Sports. TNT's basketball broadcasts, which include a weekly doubleheader known as TNT NBA Thursday, the Inside the NBA studio show, as well as playoff coverage, are perhaps that...

.

Format

The show airs "live look-in's" throughout the night, in which they air some footage of a game currently airing on local broadcasts. The only games NBA TV is not allowed to look in are games broadcasted by ESPN and ABC. The studio team also provides analysis on any sort of news, or questions provided by the fans. On some nights, Ronnie Nunn

Ronnie Nunn

Ronnie Nunn is a former professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association for nineteen seasons and is as of 2011 the league's Director of Officials and host of Making the Call With Ronnie Nunn on NBA TV...

 provides a shorter version of his former show, Making the Call with Ronnie Nunn, in which Ronnie challenges the viewer at home (As well as the analysts in the studio,) to decide on if a referee made a right call in a game. After some of the games, the crew interviews players on winning teams. The crew also sometimes has phone interviews with former players of the game.

An edited one hour/thirty minute version of the broadcast is repeated throughout the late night/early morning hours.

Tuesday Fan Night

On Tuesday broadcasts, viewers at home pick which game the channel will air that day, on the NBA's official website. Ahmad Rashad

Ahmad Rashad

Ahmad Rashād is an American sportscaster and former professional football player. An All-American running back and wide receiver from Oregon known as Bobby Moore, Rashad was the fourth overall pick in the 1972 NFL Draft, drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals...

, Gary Payton

Gary Payton

Gary Dwayne Payton is a former American professional basketball point guard. He is best known for his 13-year tenure with the Seattle SuperSonics, and holds Seattle franchise records in points, assists, and steals...

, and Chris Webber

Chris Webber

Mayce Edward Christopher "Chris" Webber, III , nicknamed C-Webb, is a retired American professional basketball player. He is a five-time NBA All-Star, a former All-NBA First Teamer, a former NBA Rookie of the Year, and a former #1 overall NBA Draftee...

 originally provide analysis for that game, as well as announce the games that the viewers can vote on for the next week. However, the team changed for the 2009-2010 NBA season, being Kevin McHale

Kevin McHale

Kevin Edward McHale is a retired American professional basketball player and current head coach of the Houston Rockets. After his playing career, he worked for the Minnesota Timberwolves as the team's general manager and later its coach. He was fired as coach in June 2009...

 and Ernie Johnson

Ernie Johnson

Ernie Johnson may refer to:*Ernie Johnson *Ernie Johnson , running back at UCLA*Ernie Johnson **Ernie Johnson, Jr. , son and sports commentator...

 along with Webber, replacing Rashad and Payton. Tuesday broadcasts were often made fun of by the comedy sports show, Sports Soup

Sports Soup

Sports Soup was a weekly series airing in the U.S. on Versus. The show , hosted by Matt Iseman, satirizes recent events in sports and the stations that cover them in similar fashion to sister network E! Entertainment Television's series The Soup...

, due to the antics of both Webber and Payton.

Studio hosts

Rick Kamla

Rick Kamla

Rick Kamla is a television personality for NBA TV.Rick Kamla has been a studio commentator for the nba since January 2003. Currently, Kamla hosts Game Time, NBATV Real Training Camp, Fantasy Insider, and NBA D-League Central...

 (2008-present)

Ernie Johnson

Ernie Johnson

Ernie Johnson may refer to:*Ernie Johnson *Ernie Johnson , running back at UCLA*Ernie Johnson **Ernie Johnson, Jr. , son and sports commentator...

 (2008-present)

Kyle Montgomery (2008-present)

Bob Fiscella (2009-present)

Matt Winer

Matt Winer

Matthew Ward Winer is an American television personality for Turner Sports and formerly with ESPN.-Career:Turner Sports signed Winer in 2010 to contribute to coverage of sports across its networks. He became the primary studio host for Major League Baseball on TBS, replacing Ernie Johnson Jr., who...

 (2009-present)

Vince Cellini

Vince Cellini

Vincent Robert Cellini is a long-time sports broadcaster for radio and television. Most recently, he was an anchor and program host for The Golf Channel. It was reported that his contract was not renewed for 2010.-Early life and career:...

 (2009-present)

Studio analysts

Steve Smith

Steve Smith (basketball)

Steven Delano "Steve" Smith is a retired American basketball player. He played with several teams in his 14-season National Basketball Association career, including the Miami Heat, the Portland Trail Blazers and the San Antonio Spurs, but is perhaps best known for his five-year stint with the...

 (2008-present)

Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith

Kenneth "The Jet" Smith is a retired National Basketball Association player and current TV basketball analyst, primarily for Inside the NBA on TNT.-Early life:...

 (2008-present)

Chris Webber

Chris Webber

Mayce Edward Christopher "Chris" Webber, III , nicknamed C-Webb, is a retired American professional basketball player. He is a five-time NBA All-Star, a former All-NBA First Teamer, a former NBA Rookie of the Year, and a former #1 overall NBA Draftee...

 (2008-present)

Cheryl Miller (2008-present)

Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley

Charles Wade Barkley is a former American professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Sir Charles" and "The Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's most dominating power forwards...

 (2008-present)

David Aldridge

David Aldridge

David Aldridge is a reporter for the Turner television networks TNT, TBS and TBD.-Education and early career:...

 (2008-present)

Antonio Davis

Antonio Davis

Antonio Lee Davis is a retired American National Basketball Association player. Davis is also the former president of the NBA Players Association .-College career:...

 (2008-present)

Bernard King

Bernard King

Bernard King is a retired American professional basketball player at the small forward position in the NBA...

 (2008-present)

Mike Fratello

Mike Fratello

Michael Robert "Mike" Fratello is an American color analyst and a professional basketball coach. He previously coached the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA, and is currently the head coach of the Ukraine national basketball team.-Background:Fratello was born in...

 (2008-present)

Derrick Coleman

Derrick Coleman

Derrick D. Coleman is a retired American basketball player in the NBA. Coleman grew up and attended high school in Detroit, Michigan and attended college at Syracuse University...

 (2009-present)

Scot Pollard

Scot Pollard

Scot L. Pollard is a retired American professional basketball player. In an eleven-year NBA career, he played for five teams, spending the bulk of his career with the Sacramento Kings and the Indiana Pacers...

 (2009-present)

Brent Barry

Brent Barry

Brent Robert Barry is an American former professional basketball player. The , shooting guard was selected out of Oregon State University by the Denver Nuggets with the 15th overall pick in the 1995 NBA Draft, but was traded shortly after to the Los Angeles Clippers.Barry played professionally...

 (2009-present)

Dennis Scott

Dennis Scott

Dennis Scott was a Jamaican poet, playwright, actor and dancer.-Education:...

 (2009-present)

Former hosts and analysts

Andre Aldridge

Andre Aldridge

Andre Aldridge is an anchor for NBA TV. Aldridge previously worked at ESPN, where he served as an anchor/reporter.During his three years at ESPN, Aldridge reported and anchored for various shows on the network, including NBA Tonight, NBA Matchup, and Friday Night Fights. He also served as an anchor...

 (2008-2009)

Ahmad Rashad

Ahmad Rashad

Ahmad Rashād is an American sportscaster and former professional football player. An All-American running back and wide receiver from Oregon known as Bobby Moore, Rashad was the fourth overall pick in the 1972 NFL Draft, drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals...

 (2008-2009)

Gary Payton

Gary Payton

Gary Dwayne Payton is a former American professional basketball point guard. He is best known for his 13-year tenure with the Seattle SuperSonics, and holds Seattle franchise records in points, assists, and steals...

 (2008-2009)

Eddie Jordan

Eddie Jordan (basketball)

Edward Montgomery "Eddie" Jordan is a retired American professional basketball player and former coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, Washington Wizards and Sacramento Kings in the NBA.-Collegiate and pro career:...

 (2008-2009)

Reggie Theus (2008-2009)

LaPhonso Ellis

LaPhonso Ellis

LaPhonso Darnell Ellis is a retired American basketball player.-Early career:He was an outstanding high school basketball player at East St. Louis Lincoln High School, where he led the Tigers to two straight Illinois Class AA boys' championships in 1987 and 1988...

 (2009)

Sam Mitchell

Sam Mitchell (basketball)

Samuel "Sam" E. Mitchell, Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player and a former head coach in the National Basketball Association . He is currently an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets....

 (2008-2010)

Lawrence Frank

Lawrence Frank

Lawrence Frank is an American basketball coach for the Detroit Pistons. He formerly served as the head coach of the NBA's New Jersey Nets and as an assistant coach of the Boston Celtics.-Biography:...

 (2010)

Eric Snow

Eric Snow

Eric Snow is a retired American professional basketball player and businessman. He is now an analyst on NBA TV and an announcer for the Philadelphia 76ers.-High school career:...

 (2008-2010)

Marc Fein

Marc Fein

Marc Fein is a sports journalist,sports news anchor, and television sports studio host, currently one of the main studio hosts for the NBA TV show, NBA Gametime Live. He is also the host of its show, The Beat, and has been the substitute host for Ernie Johnson on the NBA on TNT...

 (2008-2011)

Kevin McHale

Kevin McHale

Kevin Edward McHale is a retired American professional basketball player and current head coach of the Houston Rockets. After his playing career, he worked for the Minnesota Timberwolves as the team's general manager and later its coach. He was fired as coach in June 2009...

(2009-2011)