Winners of six straight, the Denver Nuggets open up a four-game homestand against the Phoenix Suns tonight. While Denver makes its run for the top seed in the West, the Suns are simply trying to stay above the play-in line.
Tonight’s game starts in just a few minutes, at 10:00 p.m. ET, and will be televised on TNT. But if you’re looking to watch a live stream, there are plenty of different ways you can do that, including some free options.
If you don’t mind spending a little bit for a month’s worth of content, Sling TV is worth checking out. There’s no free trial (there’s two of those options in the next section if that’s what you’re looking for), but you can get the Sling Orange channel package, which includes TNT and ESPN, along with Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, Starz, AMC+ and MGM+ all for just $20 for your first month.
After that, Sling Orange moves to $40 per month (and the add-ons are anywhere from $5 to $10 each per month), which is still cheaper long-term than any other streaming service that include TNT and ESPN.
You can watch a live stream of TNT through either YouTube TV or DirecTV Stream. Both come with a free five-day trial, while YouTube TV actually gives you a 20-minute free preview before needing to sign up.
Either will work if you simply want to watch tonight’s game for free and then cancel, but if you plan on keeping a live-TV streaming service for a while, DirecTV Stream is awfully intriguing. The “Entertainment” package is $80 per month, but you can get Max (formerly HBO Max), Cinemax, Starz, Paramount+ with Showtime and MGM+ all for free for your first three months. That’s $168 worth of content for free–as long as you keep DirecTV Stream for three months.
Max subscribers can watch NBA on TNT games with the B/R Sports add-on. At some point the add-on will cost $10 per month, but it’s still available for free.
That means that if you already have Max, you can watch the game at no extra cost. If you don’t have Max, one month of the streaming service will run you just $10 (there’s no free trial), so this would be the cheapest non-free-trial way to watch the game.
A virtual private network (VPN) hides your IP address and location, allowing you to access content from other countries that is normally geo-locked. So, if, say, you have YouTube TV–which is available only in the US–but you’re traveling outside of the country, you can still use a VPN to watch the game.
NordVPN is at the top of our list of the best VPN services. It doesn’t have a normal free trial, but it does offer a 30-day money-back guarantee in case you change your mind at anytime during the first month.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.