For as long as I've known the NBA, it's been a Stars League.

But even among the Stars, there's an exclusive club.

Russell and Dr. Jay, Jordan, Kobe.

They're all part of a select group that paved the way for the NBA superstar of today.

And some even shared secrets with each other along the way.

From Spotify and the Ringer podcast network, I'm Jackie McMullen, and this is the Icons

Club.

Welcome, everyone.

I'm Matt Bellany.

Today is Thursday, March 17th, St. Patty's Day.

Today we're going to talk with media analyst Andrew Wallenstein, a noted Irishman.

And we're going to talk about Amazon, closing its $8.5 billion deal for MGM Studios.

A huge deal in Hollywood, 6.5 billion.

And then with debt, it's 8.5 billion.

A lot of billions. What's going to happen

to the Amazon Prime interface? What's going to happen to those 4,000 movies in the MGM library?

What's going to happen to you, a consumer of media and entertainment? But first, I want to talk a

little bit about the Chris Cuomo situation. I can't quite understand how it got to hear. Chris Cuomo,

if you haven't seen, he filed an arbitration demand yesterday. He's asking for $125 million

for his firing from CNN. He's claiming that he's owned about $15 million of salary

left on his deal for 19 months. But he's also saying that he's owed about $110 million because CNN fired him and

essentially, in his words, tarred and feathered him and destroyed his reputation by

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