NEW YORK—The saga for rights to NBA games continues, with Warner Bros. Discovery filing a lawsuit in state court in New York against the NBA. The lawsuit claims that WBD’s TNT Sports had the right to match any offer for a package of NBA names and that the league improperly rejected WBD’s matching offer for a package of rights.
“As an `Incumbent,’ TBS has the right to match any “Third Party Offer” for future NBA telecast rights. TBS 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 NBA, however, has breached the Agreement and deliberately refused to honor TBS’s rights, forcing TBS and WBD to seek judicial intervention.”
