“I’d like to thank the leadership at TNT Sports for allowing me the time away to take care of a family matter during the baseball season,” Johnson, a longtime TNT host, said in a statement from Warner Bros. “I look forward to returning to the studio for the start of the NBA season.”
“We have reviewed the offers and matched one of them,” TNT’s statement read.
“We’re proud of how we have delivered for basketball fans by providing best-in-class coverage throughout our four-decade partnership with the NBA. In an effort to continue our long-standing partnership, during both exclusive and non-exclusive negotiation periods, we acted in good faith to present strong bids that were fair to both parties.”
The expectation laid out by Glasspiegel is that TNT would look to match Amazon’s side of the agreement, believing they can compete in both streaming and broadcast.
A legal battle between the two companies would be a disaster if TNT came up short, as the beloved “Inside the NBA” crew of Johnson, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, and Shaquille O’Neill could be left without a job at TNT and in limbo, waiting for the courts to decide the situation.
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