Aliyah Boston is getting a jump on a possible sports TV career.
The 23-year-old WNBA star is finalizing a deal to return to NBC Sports and Peacock this fall, Front Office Sports has learned. The Fever forward would serve as a studio analyst and possible game analyst for Big Ten college basketball coverage, sources say.
The 2023 WNBA rookie of the year first made her broadcast debut as a studio analyst for Peacock’s Big Ten women’s college basketball coverage during the 2023-2024 season.
Despite her youth, Boston has followed the dual path blazed by Fox’s Greg Olsen, ESPN’s Chiney Ogwumike, and TNT Sports’s Draymond Green of working as a sports broadcaster while still playing professionally.
Boston, who majored in communications at South Carolina, just powered the Fever to a winner-take-all Game 5 against the Aces, which will happen on Tuesday night. She’s averaging a career-best 15.0 points per game for the injury-riddled Fever, who have lost star Caitlin Clark as well as five other players.
This year has seen a blizzard of NBA, WNBA, and college basketball media hires as NBC and Amazon Prime Video staff up.
As exclusively reported by FOS reporter Ryan Glasspiegel, Chris Haynes and Marcus Thompson are joining Prime’s debut season of NBA coverage in the U.S. Haynes will serve as a league insider while Thompson will report feature stories. Meanwhile, NBC announced on Monday that Sports Illustrated veteran Chris Mannix was coming aboard as a digital NBA insider.
NBC declined to comment when asked about Boston.
