The Sporting Class: What the NBA and WNBA’s Record-Setting TV Deals Mean

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 51 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! It’s time for more NBA TV rights talk! It looks like NBC, ESPN, and Amazon have won the battle, even though Warner Bros. Discovery is trying to fight. What does the big money mean? Let’s take a look at the valuations of media rights deals and what comes next for sports leagues. Why is Knicks owner James Dolan so mad about it? He sent a letter to the league and is furious with the new NBA media rights deal. Why was he the only owner to vote against this new deal? We finally have seen some numbers on what’s happening with the WNBA. It’s a major increase. Welcome to the billion club! How will this new money impact the league? 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.
0:06.0	You represented everything that you've come to love.
0:10.0	Right after this ad.
0:15.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. work. I do want to acknowledge David that the real star of this show, the sporting class, has been
0:38.0	John Skipper's voice.
0:41.5	It does a lot. I would not have said such a thing.
0:45.0	And what because of the tone or the content?
0:49.0	Well, we can get to the content, but it the drawl, an allegedly weaponized drawl
0:57.7	that allows John to be every man and also the epitome of the subject of a rich guy's only fans which is what I call the sporting class in reality
1:07.3	He's liked more because of his accent
1:09.5	Absolutely I'm just channeling who you probably someone that almost no one who listens to this will remember
1:15.6	Senator Sam Irving who was only Watergate committee and used to start at least one question a day with, well you know, I'm just a dumb country lawyer.
1:27.5	But where I come from in North Carolina, we would just call that common sense. Well, I'm sorry that my distinguished friend from Florida does not approve of my method of examining the witness.
1:39.0	I'm an old country lawyer and I don't know the fine ways to do it.
1:42.0	I just have to do it my way.
1:44.0	That's how you live your life. It's done well for you.
1:48.0	Yeah, it's all I got.
1:50.0	It's all I got.
1:51.0	Brice Little's got a lot more. This is it.
1:53.2	David, by contrast, has the voice of a president who is demanding that people break
1:57.8	into a certain hotel maybe to...
2:00.0	Just not get caught.
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