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We know, I'm just going to tell it like it is, T&T played a dangerous game of chicken with the NBA, okay?

If you have something that you really want, you don't play around.

When negotiations open, how much is going to cost? Let's get this thing done.

No, the president of, you know, I know it's Warner, Discovery, I don't know the name of it.

It's like a million name now, T&T, okay? He goes on the record and says T&T could live with, survive without the NBA.

He did say that. That was on the record.

I know.

Okay.

So if I'm the NBA, okay, I got you.

I heard what you said. Like a threat, right? That you don't come to the table. You don't do what we want. We'll move on. That's what it sounded like to me, like a threat. A veiled threat. so the bargaining starts

and the other networks

get involved

the NBC had been veil threat. So the bargaining starts and the other networks get involved.

The NBC had been out for a gazillion years.

Oh my God, they want to sell peacock.

They want to be able to get people to buy the streaming service.

So you've got to give people a reason to pay the $599 or whatever it is.

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