The parent company of the TNT cable network believes the league misinterpreted its contractual right to match a bid from Amazon.
Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit Friday against the NBA over the new media rights deal that cuts out the league's longtime TV partner Turner Sports. The suit filed in New York Supreme Court asserts that the NBA breached its current deal by allegedly refusing to honor Turner's rights to match an offer from Amazon in the new contract that pays the league $77 billion over 11 years starting in the 2025-26 season.
But Turner asserts that its offer to put games on TNT and Max was comparable. ' timely exercised these matching rights by accepting a third party offer on the same material terms and conditions that the NBA was willing to accept from Amazon,' the suit said. 'The NBA, however has breached the agreement and deliberately refused to honor rights.' 'Warner Bros. Discovery's claims are without merit and our lawyers will address them,' the NBA said in a statement.
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