Talk about a Saturday night news dump, huh, guys? Jesus. Look, I am nothing less than staggered by this whole thing.

I didn't even know you could do that. I didn't know you could, in a settlement between two parties,

bringing a third party. It was like ESPN was the third team trying to make a trade happen.

We'll take on that salary right here. That's crazy. But the salary right here is Michael Jordan in his prime.

Well, some might say you're a little past his prime, but...

Oh, okay.

For those that don't know.

Basically, NBA was selling the TV rights deals.

ESP and ABC keeps their share, but then Turner Sports, which is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery,

loses their bid to a combination of NBC and Amazon.

Now, because the contract that Warner Brothers Discovery had

has a right of first refusal, they said,

well, we'll match, but we want to match the cheaper package,

which is the Amazon package, rather than the NBC

package, which more closely mirrors the Turner offering. The league says, hey, this isn't

like regular restrictive free agency where you just match it and that's it, as long as you match

a dollar amount. You have to match the terms of the agreement. And the terms of the Amazon

agreement are written very specifically

for a digital product,

not for terrestrial,

not for linear television,

like the NBC one is.

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