Tom Friend

With NBA executives sequestered in almost around-the-clock negotiations with a fistful of networks — from old-school NBC to new-school Amazon to out-of-school Warner Bros. Discovery — the end game has begun to cross most people’s minds at the league’s 5th Avenue office. There are going to be...

David Zaslav, the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO who at times has seemed ambivalent about retaining NBA media rights, effusively praised the league in a public appearance on Monday while doubling down on the value of live sports broadcasts. Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in...

Before Arthur M. Blank ever had The Home Depot, he had a home in an apartment building. He wasn’t born into money; he was born into a flat in Queens, N.Y., with a single bathroom, a single bedroom he shared with his older brother,...

A day after industry sources said Ernie Johnson is committed to TNT even if Warner Bros. Discovery loses its NBA package, Charles Barkley said the iconic studio show "Inside the NBA" can never be replicated even if co-hosts Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal ...

While Charles Barkley is a certain broadcast free agent if Warner Bros. Discovery loses its NBA package following the 2024-25 season, industry sources said Thursday that co-host Ernie Johnson would remain at Turner either way -- meaning next season could be the last for...

If Warner Bros. Discovery is shut out from the NBA’s next media rights deal -- and Comcast’s NBCUniversal has reportedly bid $2.5B annually to potentially take Turner’s place -- then TNT’s Charles Barkley said he has an out in his contract to leave WBD....

Two days ahead of Caitlin Clark ’s sold-out preseason debut Friday in Arlington, Texas against the Dallas Wings, courtside tickets were listed for as much as $2,695 on the secondary market -- a supply and demand scenario that WNBA team executives expect to see all season long....

Turner’s 35-year run with the NBA appears to be teetering, after Comcast's NBCUniversal has reportedly bid $2.5B annually to form a possible broadcast triumvirate with ESPN and Amazon into the mid-2030s. A clause in Warner Bros. Discovery’s prior deal with the league gives them the right...

The NBA media rights negotiations were always going to careen into the open market, no matter how much money incumbents Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery offered up. So it was hardly news last week when the exclusive negotiating window closed without a deal. Rather, it was the...

WME Sports has announced its 2024 prospective NBA draft class, a list that includes three projected top 10 picks, six potential first-rounders and perhaps the No. 1 overall choice in C Alexandre Sarr of France. Bill Duffy, whose longtime company BDA was acquired by WME in April 2023,...