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

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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. David has announced that he is hangary, John. I'm just grumpy, not hungry. downright grumpy humpy I'm sneezy you are sick it's just been one of those days have you ever had one of those days we have too much to get to for me to get into it, but I'm not having a great day.
0:44.0	Because you didn't get to eat your...
0:46.0	My timing was all off today because of technical issues with the show I did.
0:50.0	And when I agreed to do a show, I agree at a certain time to do the show, it's live, you're supposed to do it then.
0:55.1	When technical issues move it, that throws off my entire plan and I did not get to you.
0:59.5	What time do we agree to do the show today?
1:02.0	The same time we always do.
1:03.2	Right now.
1:04.2	Right now.
1:05.2	Right now is the end of Grumpy.
1:07.4	We'll be happy because we're getting ready to have fun discussing the business of sports.
1:12.6	That's right.
1:13.6	Sporting class.
1:14.6	A place where we talk about other people feeling grumpy, but we ourselves are thrilled
1:20.5	to talk about how grumpy everybody else is. Our group chat has been I think something that our listeners would love to be inside of.
1:45.6	I want to recreate just the flurry of updates that we've been sending each other.
1:49.9	The theories, the conspiracies perhaps, that I've been circulating, all because now we have an
1:56.0	update to the story we have covered more thoroughly and more rigorously, I believe, with
1:59.3	more personal insight from John Skipper or President of ESPN, many negotiated the last
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