PTFO - The Sporting Class: Decoding the NBA’s Billion-Dollar Legal Fight with Warner Bros. Discovery

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Sporting Class! Meadowlark Media CEO John Skipper and Nothing Personal's David Samson are back with another episode with host of Pablo Torre Finds Out ... Pablo Torre! The NBA media rights deal saga is not over just yet. Warner Bros. Discovery is not going away quietly as they have now sued the NBA. What exactly does David Zaslav want from this? NBA games? Money? Both? What’s the deal with Charles Barkley? Is he going to stay with TNT? He said he was going to retire after the 2025 season, but now it doesn’t look likely. Let’s take a look at the judge in this case of WBD v. NBA. The judge hearing the case was a part of the Spirits of St. Louis and its lawsuit against the NBA. Should this knowledge from the judge matter? Comcast is one of the largest distributors in the country. What is TNT worth to Comcast if it loses the NBA? Let’s explain what these carriage fees are and the leverage Comcast has over the new fees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:05.6	I've been called Worfy and Never Humpy.
0:09.2	Right after this ad.
0:10.4	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. What else can give you a wave of goosebumps like this?
0:26.0	This is history, two men with legacies on the line.
0:29.2	And then send you into a state of complete euphoria. An adulteration Tundavari
0:34.4	that staph could breach.
0:35.8	Two goals in the blink of an eye.
0:37.8	And then leave you with a tear in your eye like this.
0:40.6	Oh!
0:41.6	Gave off his all in the dark. Will it be his last? this. David has announced that he is hangary, John.
0:54.0	I'm just grumpy, not hungry.
0:58.0	I'm just grumpy, not hungry. I'm just grumpy, I'm downright grumpy.
1:05.4	Humpy.
1:06.4	I'm sneezy.
1:07.8	You are sick.
1:09.1	It's just been one of those days.
1:10.3	Have you ever had one of those days?
1:11.7	We have too much to get to for me to get into it, but I'm not having a great day.
1:14.7	Because you didn't get to eat your... My timing was all off today because of technical issues with the show I did.
1:20.7	And when I agreed to do a show, I agree at a certain time to do the show it's live you're supposed
1:25.2	to do it then when technical issues move it that throws off my entire plan and I did not
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