What Amazon’s NBA deal means for the future of sports media rights

An attorney specializing in sports broadcasting rights weighs in on the implications of Amazon’s NBA deal, and how WBD’s lawsuit will likely shake out.

It was not exactly a fast break. When the NBA last week officially spurned Warner Bros. Discovery’s attempts to continue a 40-year partnership between the league and WBD subsidiary, TNT Sports, opting instead for a deal with Amazon Prime, it was the end of a long, slow, unusually public negotiation. Well, not quite the end.