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 Considering the number of current NBA stars, casting Steph Curry as the lead of a network sitcom is a radical choice. Rising star Anthony Edwards is a bigger personality. Reigning MVP Nikola Jokic is a more serious actor. Klay Thompson, Curry’s former Splash Brother, is a situational comedy in himself, as apt to appear in a TV news interview on the scaffolding of New York City as he is to laugh at his online impersonators. It is Curry, however, who is the star and executive producer of Mr Throwback, a new Peacock series that seems part of a broader strategy by NBC Universal to retain its massive Olympics audience, wrest its TV comedy crown from Disney (home of Abbott Elementary) and reclaim some of its former Thursday night swagger. It’s also something of a preview of the 2025-26 NBA season, when NBC will broadcast games again after a 23-year hiatus. NBC's rights deal leaves Warner Bros Discovery out of the loop and would appear to spell the end of Inside the NBA, the standard in ...