section_path: Programming/Sports/History/National Basketball Association
section_name: National Basketball Association
paragraph_text: National Basketball Association
  
  During the NBA Finals, additional coverage would be immediately available on CNBC, in which the panelists provided an additional half-hour of in-depth game discussions, after the NBC broadcast network's coverage concluded.
  
  Beginning in the 2005–06 season, CNBC showed coverage of the NBA playoffs, produced as part of the NBA on NBC package.