Netflix's Sports Streaming Future: Does the NBA Find a Role?

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00:00 Sports professor Rick Harrow, inside the $1.3 trillion business of sports with your Daily

00:05 Numbers game.

00:06 How about Netflix?

00:07 Fresh off of Drive to Survive and Full Swing, even the Netflix Cup, they're mixing the participants

00:15 in these golf and racing series with golf tournaments, and they're doing it live and

00:20 they're streaming.

00:21 And their president says this is the wave of the future, and they're going to bid for

00:26 rights.

00:27 What is next?

00:28 The in-season tournament, some say, and ESPN had an example of a 63% increase in one game

00:34 compared to another regular season game.

00:36 What the NBA might do, should do, is to carve out the in-season tournament game rights as

00:42 part of its TV package after the 2025 rights fees kick in.

00:47 After all, they want about $50 to $75 billion, and Netflix, as a willing and capitalized

00:53 outlier, may just do the trick.

00:56 I'm Professor Rick Harl, Daily Numbers guy.

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