Brad Daugherty
NBA/Motorsports Analyst
Brad Daugherty is an analyst for NBC Sports’ NBA and NASCAR coverage. He joined NBC Sports during the 2020 NASCAR season, serving as pre- and post-race analyst during NBC Sports’ NASCAR Cup Series race coverage. Beginning in October 2025, he will serve as a game analyst when the NBA returns to NBC and debuts on Peacock.
A life-long NASCAR fan from Black Mountain, N.C., Daugherty is part-owner of the JTG Daugherty Racing Cup Series team.
Daugherty previously served as a NASCAR analyst for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series on ESPN, where he also co-hosted the reality show Fast Cars and Super Stars.
Daugherty has previous basketball commentating experience as well, serving as an analyst on the Cleveland Cavaliers’ broadcasts on Bally Sports Ohio and FanDuel Sports Ohio from 2022-2025 and SportsChannel Ohio during the 1997-98 season. Daugherty also spent time with ESPN as an NBA and college basketball analyst.
Prior to his career in NASCAR, Daugherty dominated the hardwood during an eight-year career NBA career with the Cleveland Cavaliers, who drafted him with the No. 1 overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft. Daugherty wore the No. 43 during his NBA career as a nod to racing icon Richard Petty, following his stand-out four-year collegiate career at the University of North Carolina.
