NPDS - NBA on cusp of $7 BILLION per year in new media rights! Why is Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner still talking!? (Episode 1058)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ’7 billion’ as in NBA as in ESPN as in Amazon as in NBC as TNT. Is TNT left out of the NBA game because it got a little too cocky? What does this mean for the players? What does this mean for the WNBA? (15:36) The NHL and NBA playoffs are going on right now. The Panthers took down the Rangers at MSG. Luka Doncic and the Mavericks held off the Timberwolves in the NBA. (29:45) Review: Parenthood. (33:45) Why is Hal Steinbrenner still talking!? The Yankees are winning! You don’t have to say the quiet part out loud! (42:18) NPPOD. (47:45) Private equity has come for college sports. College football is an expensive game. Lawsuits are an expensive game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	go.
0:04.0	go. 7 billion. That's the nothing personal. Austin Powers word of the day for May 23rd, 2024.
0:24.3	Today is Thursday.
0:26.2	Good morning.
0:28.3	We are coming to you live at 8 a.m.
0:31.8	Having been at a hockey game last night and gotten back in the middle of the night,
0:35.4	but guess what? It's Showtime. And when you're talking about $7 billion, that can perk anybody up better than a cup of coffee which I don't drink.
0:45.0	I didn't even take a no-dose. Maybe a jolt.
0:49.0	Nope, didn't do that either. Just some wada. Seven billion dollars. Another franchise has been
0:58.0	sold in the NFL. Nope. Seven billion billion, a record for broadcast rights.
1:07.0	Nope, seven billion dollars.
1:11.0	It's a record, all right. It's a record for the NBA broadcast rights. The entire
1:17.0	sports business world is going, Betty. All the fans who don't understand business are sad.
1:26.0	They're losing inside the NBA.
1:28.0	No more Berkeley.
1:29.0	No more shack, no more Kenny.
1:31.0	What's going to be with Ernie?
1:33.0	If you've been following this story the way we've been covering it, both on the sporting class and
1:37.9	on nothing personal, you're saying to yourself right now, what's new?
1:42.3	What's new? What's new is, here we go. Sports Business Journal
1:48.3	reported on Wednesday that the NBA is formalizing the media rights deals with the ESPN, NBC, and Amazon.
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