NBA approves new media deals with Disney (ABC/ESPN), Comcast (NBC), and Amazon for 11 years, $77 billion. Update: NBA REJECTS WBD's (TNT Sports) deal

[No1]

So it’s gonna be ABC/ESPN, NBC/Peacock, and TNT? I’m good with that.

Having the opportunity to match doesn’t mean the NBA has to accept your bid and they sure as fukk won’t. WB was always going to “try” to match. The question was whether the NBA would accept it and what their legal basis would be for not doing it. This bid just proves them right.

Amazon - having the bread versus WB taking out a line of credit

Amazon Prime - global, available in more countries and at least 100 million more homes.

I don’t know if they’re just saving face or if they are foolish enough to go to court which hasn’t happened over media rights since CBS and the NBA decades ago, but this doesn’t really change anything. Every move has gone according to expectations.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

fukkery

 

[Left.A1]

 

[Left.A1]

Having the opportunity to match doesn’t mean the NBA has to accept your bid and they sure as fukk won’t. WB was always going to “try” to match. The question was whether the NBA would accept it and what their legal basis would be for not doing it. This bid just proves them right.

Amazon - having the bread versus WB taking out a line of credit

Amazon Prime - global, available in more countries and at least 100 million more homes.

I don’t know if they’re just saving face or if they are foolish enough to go to court which hasn’t happened over media rights since CBS and the NBA decades ago, but this doesn’t really change anything. Every move has gone according to expectations.

"We did everything we could"

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

"We did everything we could"

Nah... they are getting something out of it. Our resident coli lawyers just said the other day that WBD would back down off the "poison pill" in the contract. Clearly, that's not the case... That's after our coli lawyers said for weeks that TNT didn't "have matching rights" because ESPN's former head said they didn't

 

[Lefty Gunz]

So is TNT only getting the in season tournament?

 

[EzekelRAGE]

$20B line of credit from Bank of America

I dont think the line of credit was for 20B, but for the 6Bish upfront payment amazon had in the offer. The 20B figure in the article is the total value of the deal over 11 years.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

So is TNT only getting the in season tournament?

Nobody knows how it's going to play out. What's expected next is that NBA says they aren't accepting WBD's match of Amazon and then it could land in court if there's not a settlement reached.

 

[FAH1223]

So is TNT only getting the in season tournament?

And conference final every other year

If the NBA doesn’t reject them

If the NBA does

They are getting sued by WBD

 

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[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Translation:

 

[Blessings]

Having the opportunity to match doesn’t mean the NBA has to accept your bid and they sure as fukk won’t. WB was always going to “try” to match. The question was whether the NBA would accept it and what their legal basis would be for not doing it. This bid just proves them right.

Amazon - having the bread versus WB taking out a line of credit

Amazon Prime - global, available in more countries and at least 100 million more homes.

I don’t know if they’re just saving face or if they are foolish enough to go to court which hasn’t happened over media rights since CBS and the NBA decades ago, but this doesn’t really change anything. Every move has gone according to expectations.

Appreciate the analysis and outlook

 

[MustafaSTL]

Having the opportunity to match doesn’t mean the NBA has to accept your bid and they sure as fukk won’t. WB was always going to “try” to match. The question was whether the NBA would accept it and what their legal basis would be for not doing it. This bid just proves them right.

Amazon - having the bread versus WB taking out a line of credit

Amazon Prime - global, available in more countries and at least 100 million more homes.

I don’t know if they’re just saving face or if they are foolish enough to go to court which hasn’t happened over media rights since CBS and the NBA decades ago, but this doesn’t really change anything. Every move has gone according to expectations.

Yeah after reading further, they did this to act like they gave an effort, make the NBA look like the “bad guys” for rejecting TNT, and then get some settlement money to walk away.

 

[triplehate]

Wait these niccas ain't got the money, so they wanna match on the smallest number