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00:00The Warner Brothers and TNT people informed the NBA today that it plans to use its matching
00:10rights on the Amazon package, sources are saying, which is the C package.
00:16Not the same that they had, but they want to still be in the NBA business.
00:20Now, Scotty, here's where things get sticky.
00:23While TNT has the right to match an offer per its current contract, the NBA is expected
00:29to decline the network's right to take the agreed upon Amazon package, sources are saying.
00:37The league's preference is to honor the $1.8 billion per year contract with Amazon.
00:41What does that mean, Scotty?
00:43It means a lot of guys in suits in a courtroom fighting over billions of dollars, and my
00:50guess is at the end of the day, the NBA is probably going to pay Warner Brothers and
00:56TNT a ton of money to go away because they want their games on Amazon, which has double
01:02the amount of subscribers, you know, on all their online platforms as opposed to Warner
01:07Brothers.
01:08Well, you know, I'm sure you're right.
01:12I have to say, though, what kind of world are we living in when you have a contract
01:19that says in writing that you have the right to match in five days and then you match on
01:27the fifth day and then you don't get it anyway?
01:32The contract says you have the right to match, and if you match it, you keep it.
01:37But the NBA says, no, we're not going to have that, because what I'm hearing is, is that
01:43I'm sure you're right, that it's because they have double the audience.
01:47What I heard was, is that the reason they're going to keep it with Prime is because they
01:52paid them up front.
01:54They put the money in escrow up front.
01:56They paid the money already.
01:58They're like, not only will we do this deal, we'll give you the money now.
02:02Everyone loves getting money up front for services rendered down the road.
02:09Honestly, that's what I heard.
02:12But that is inexplicable to me, that you can have the right to match and then they can
02:16still screw you, even though the contract says you can match and keep it.
02:22You know what that is?
02:23We'll see you in court real soon.