--NBA TV Available Through Nationwide Free Preview April 23-May 6 Featuring Up To Nine Exclusive Live First-Round Playoff Games Beginning Tuesday, April 26 Philadelphia 76ers at Detroit Pistons--

Beginning with special editions of NBA TV Insiders this week and continuing throughout the playoffs, NBA TV will give fans the ultimate all-access pass to the 2005 NBA Playoffs and will for the first time enlist current NBA players and coaches to provide analysis of all the action during its more than 1,000 hours of coverage.

The players, coaches and other guests including three-time NBA Champion Scott Williams and New York Knicks Head Coach Herb Williams will join a stellar cast of regular NBA TV studio analysts and provide viewers with pregame and postgame reports, analysis, features from behind-the-scenes and exclusive interviews.

NBA TV will be available through a nationwide Free Preview April 23-May 6 featuring up to nine exclusive live first-round games to cable and satellite distributors including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Cablevision, Bright House Networks and DISH Network.

Highlights of NBA TV’s nightly programming lineup to include:

• Up to nine exclusive first-round games-- all shown in high-definition—with the first three games slated for Tuesday, April 26 at 7:30pm ET Philadelphia 76ers at Detroit Pistons, Wednesday, April 27 at 8:30pm ET Washington Wizards at Chicago Bulls, and Thursday, April 28 at 8:30pm ET Boston Celtics at Indiana Pacers. Spero Dedes will handle play-by-play with Fred Carter or Steve "Snapper" Jones providing analysis.

• Signature show NBA TV Insiders presented by Radio Shack (7pm ET) – including playoff previews on Thursday, April 21 (Eastern Conference) and Friday, April 22 (Western Conference) – with, among other guests, host Spero Dedes, former 76ers Head Coach Fred Carter, former Knicks G.M. Scott Layden and NY Daily News’ Frank Isola debating all the hot storylines.

• NBA TV Live pregame and postgame studio show (varied times) with, among other guests, host Andre Aldridge, Hall of Fame guard Gail Goodrich, broadcast legend Bill Rafter and NY Post’s Peter Vecsey.

• Destination Finals (2am ET), late-night series premiering its second season on Saturday, April 23, hosted by fantasy hoops guru Rick Kamla and featuring in-depth coverage of every game, highlights, news conferences and exclusive interviews;

• NBA TV Daily (2:30am ET), studio show includes quick game highlights, “Top 10 Plays of the Day,” box scores of every game and the best of player and coach interviews.

• Special playoff editions of NBA Legends with Johnny Hoops presented by Hyundai featuring exclusive sit-down interviews by legendary Knicks announcer John Andariese with NBA champions including Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Walt Frazier.

In addition to the live Playoff games and other programming on NBA TV, throughout the Free Preview NBA Entertainment will make "NBA TV On Demand" available free of charge to all Comcast Digital Cable subscribers to NBA TV. On Demand content will include daily two- to three-minute highlight packages of each Playoff and Finals game, 10- to 18-minute compilation packages of all the night’s game action, a daily “Top 10 Plays of the Day,” post-game news conferences and a special new offering called “NBA ZAP,” that will provide an in-depth look at the top story of the night.