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Warner Bros. Discovery Intends To Match Amazon’s NBA Rights Deal
NBA incumbent Warner Bros. Discovery plans to match Amazon’s new basketball rights deal that's said to be in the $1.8 billion range, Deadline hears.
WBD’s exclusive negotiating window with the League ended in April with no agreement and although talks continued the NBA is said to have settled on three other partners, incumbent Disney/ESPN as well as NBCUniversal and Amazon Prime Video. While not publicly confirming the names, Commissioner Adam Silver said at a press conference last night that the League has approved “this stage of those media proposals.” I will say in advance there will be a fair amount I won’t be able to discuss yet about those media deals because they haven’t been finalized,” he continued, most certainly referring to WBD, which has matching rights baked into its current contract.
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