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- Warner Bros. Discovery is about to lose one of its best assets: the rights to show NBA games.
- Now, WBD is suing the NBA to try to break up a deal the league has made with Amazon.
- It's probably a bad idea to end up in court with your long-term sports programming partner. But WBD has boxed itself into an unpleasant corner.
Two years ago, Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav told investors he'd be ok without NBA games, which his TNT network had been airing for decades.