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NBA Seeks Dismissal of Warner Sports-Rights Lawsuit


The NBA seeks to dismiss an eyebrow-raising lawsuit by Warner Bros. Discovery for a lucrative package of basketball games now earmarked for Amazon

The NBA moved Friday to shut down Warner Bros. Discovery’s ambitious legal effort to force the league to restore some portion of its media rights to the company. The NBA in July awarded new 11-year rights deals to Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon, rejecting a bid by Warner to stay in its circle of media partners after a relationship that has lasted around three decades. One of the documents filed is a July 24, 2024 letter from William Koenig, the NBA’s head of media distribution to Luis Silberwasser, the president of Warner’s TNT Sports.

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