The Future of the NBA with Rachel Nichols

Oddball w/ Amin Elhassan & Izzy Gutierrez

Meadowlark Media

Basketball, Comedy, Sports

2.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, we play part of our conversation with Rachel Nichols about the future of the NBA after their 11-year, $76 billion media rights deal. What does it mean for future players' contracts? Is there a chance Inside the NBA will return? And where the heck are the games going to air?! Plus, Rachel offers her solution to get players to buy into the All-Star Game, and predicts who the highest-paid player in the Nba will be in ten years. Charlotte and Amin close the show with another round of Off-Court Olympic Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Oddball. I'm Charlotte Wilder. That's Amin Al-Hassin. I'm very excited about this episode today because we get to chat with our good friend Rachel Nichols. Again, there's been a lot of talk about the NBA rights after the NBA signed a $77 billion deal between NBC, Amazon, Disney, and we talk to Rachel about it.
0:31.7	So check it out.
0:33.9	All right.
0:34.4	Our next guest is friend of the show, one of our favorite people, one of the most plugged-in people in NBA circles.
0:40.5	Rachel, Nichols.
0:42.3	Rachel, thank you for joining us.
0:44.5	You stay stuff like that.
0:45.4	I'm going to just keep coming around.
0:46.7	Well, that's when I'm doing it.
0:48.0	That and the free pizza.
0:49.5	I mean, you know.
0:50.6	Yeah, you keep running.
0:51.2	I didn't get any pizza.
0:52.0	Well, you know what?
0:53.8	It's okay. I'm hot.
0:55.0	The NBA is facing a massive sea change.
0:58.0	Yes.
0:59.0	As it moves to new networks with this huge deal that is in place for what?
1:03.0	11 years.
1:04.0	11 years.
1:05.0	For 70 plus, but 76 billion?
1:07.0	Yeah.
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