The 2025-26 season will bring some substantial changes to how we watch NBA basketball, as the new national TV broadcast deal goes into effect and shifts rights to two new networks. That has led to an arm's race between NBC and Amazon as they fill out their studio and game broadcast crews,

Michael Jordan, a six-time NBA champion and a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, will join NBC Sports’ coverage of the NBA as a special contributor.

Michael Jordan hasn't been an NBA media personality at all since retirement. Most of his involvement with the league came as the Governor and majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets until 2023. He never joined TNT or ESPN to share his thoughts on the game, so we literally have no clue how Jordan views the current generation of NBA players.