they should cover all other sports, from soccer to ping pong. they don't even need to be knowledgeable to be entertaining. it's like when snupe and kev hart did the commentaries on the olympics
Nice. I don't even watch the full games for other teams anymore, Inside the NBA crew could prob make a lot of money with a tues/thurs format if they keep it tight. Maybe open other days/season with a different crew for football/baseball.
at first I even thought this isn't an official promo! Judging from this video, even the production team is creampuff now. No edge. No production value. just lazy cuts.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40978381/nba-files-motion-dismiss-warner-bros-discovery-lawsuit Yeah this is done and as we figured, an attempt by WBD to save face rather than a serious attempt to get the rights. Scandalous move to rewrite the terms and pretend they could keep the NBA with the linear TV rights granted to NBC already.
Deadline NBA Slam Dunks Warner Bros Discovery, Says Company Lacks Reach & Cash To Challenge Amazon TV Rights Deal; TNT Insists League’s “Actions Are Unjustified” As Court Battle Heats Up Spoiler By Dominic Patten Unless someone calls a time out soon, the legal game between the NBA and Warner Bros Discovery over small-screen basketball rights that the still David Zaslav-run media company turned over looks set to go down to some serious 2-for-1. As promised, the Adam Silver-led league has responded with force to WBD’s heavily redacted July 26-filed suit over the rights Amazon was awarded earlier this year in a multi-outlet $77 billion deal for the 2025-26 season and beyond. In Hail Mary mode, the stock-cratering WBD and subsidiary Turner Broadcasting System desire a court order to stop the Jeff Bezos-owned streamer from even showing games until this is all resolved. Unsurprisingly, the NBA, which has made deals with ABC, NBC and Amazon for the next 11 years for the league and the WNBA, want to block that move. In fact, the NBA want to shut this whole business down with its soon to be ex-partner of nearly 30 years. In a late night motion for dismissal to be argued in person in New York state court on October 4, just under three weeks before the 79th NBA regular season tip offs, the NBA made it clear it is not playing games. To put it simply, the gist of the league’s argument is: Sorry WBD, but you’re just not big enough for the NBA, and it looks like you don’t have the cash. “For example, to ensure the financial security of billions of dollars of rights fee payments over the deal’s 11-year term, Amazon agreed, inter alia, to maintain an escrow account from which rights fees will automatically be paid to the NBA as they become due,” the supporting memorandum of law from the league’s Sullivan & Cromwell lawyers reads. “TBS eliminated this protection by giving itself the option to instead provide the NBA with syndicated letters of credit that the NBA can access only if TBS’s payments are late. That is not even close to the same thing.” "...TBS does not “currently enjoy” the rights covered by Amazon’s offer—namely, rights to distribute live NBA games on a disaggregated, standalone basis via an SVOD service streamed over the Internet. Instead, TBS’s current rights are limited to distributing games as part of a linear cable television network,..." ...Rubbing salt in the wound, the NBA also allege that WBD lack the heft to effectively promote league games on either TNT or streamer Max – unlike Amazon, who are going to utilize their well-watched NFL Thursday Night Football property...." article
i hope they do. a long drawn out battle and then tnt hits a clutch 3pt for the win at the buzzer... only to replace sir chuck with draymond lelz.
Hopefully this is settled before 2025-26 season starts, though it should as TNT has dug their own grave by trying to change the terms.
I don't think it matters because it's doubtful a judge issues a restraining order preventing the NBA from moving forward with Amazon. Probably the two parties will agree on a dollar amount so TNT can go crawl under a rock and disappear.
It’s way more convenient to have to switch from app to app rather than simply changing the channel. What an awesome improvement.
It's not really that weird. The NFL has a show called Inside The NFL, it runs on CW. A weekly show that covers the league. What's beneficial for the TNT version is that it can be 1 ) at a better time because most people can't even watch Inside since it's too late on a Thursday and 2) can pick from storylines and games from throughout the whole week, rather than just talking about games from the same night.
Oh god, can this guy even talk properly? Sounds like NBA might compromise and give in to TNT, which would suck.
I wonder how much ESPN is paying for this. While inside is insanely popular, WB was paying a lot of money for the crew. Whatever WB is getting from ESPN and the NBA must have been worth it for them b
