National Basketball Association
The NBA's Canadian marketing arm is managed by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, parent company of the Toronto Raptors. As a result, MLSE sells packages typically including both Raptors and non-Raptors games. Simulcasts of U.S. national broadcasts from TNT, ESPN, or NBA TV typically have priority, although in many cases out-of-market team broadcasts may be aired as well.
For the 2010–11 season, TSN and TSN2 will together carry 47 Toronto Raptors games, with the remaining 35 games airing on either Sportsnet or Sportsnet One.
All four of these channels, as well as The Score and NBA TV Canada, will carry non-Raptors regular-season games and/or NBA Playoffs games, with TSN2 carrying most regular-season TNT games, and TSN carrying the NBA Finals (although virtually every viewer who receives TSN also gets ABC from their cable or satellite service provider).
Sunday afternoon on ABC via NBA on ESPN games, which were previously simulcast on Sun TV, are now expected to air on CHCH-TV (due to Sun TV's plans to leave the air at the end of 2010).
In addition, some NBA games are available on United States local broadcasters carried on Canadian cable systems. One such example is Chicago based WGN, several Chicago Bulls games are carried on this network, through its status as the Bulls' local broadcaster.
All remaining games are available through the NBA League Pass out-of-market sports package.
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