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On Tuesday, Mark Cuban replied to a post on X regarding the likely legal battle between the NBA and WBD ahead. In doing so, the former Dallas Mavericks owner proposed that the media conglomerate focus its efforts not on a national NBA package, but rather the league’s local rights. “My suggestion would be that they get diamond local rights, and overlay the games on TBS for local broadcast,” Cuban wrote, referring to Diamond Sports Group, the regional sports operator the possesses the local rights for half of the NBA’s 30 teams. “Maybe lease a stick to expand coverage and of course streaming.”
“Start with 15 diamond markets or so, and others as they expire It justifies their subscription fee for MVPDs , who also save money by paying WBD what they are already paying for TBS, and not paying up when the local network affiliate pays teams as leverage to get more carriage fees,” Cuban wrote. “This way TBS has most of the USA covered with local games. They show the same reruns they would otherwise show with no NBA deal in the markets without games[.] Fans who have basic cable would get all their local games on a fully distributed network or on a local bleacher report stream.”
Mavericks draftee Melvin Ajinca signs one-year deal in France
LDLC Asvel Villerbaune has announced the signing of French forward Melvin Ajinca. According to the club’s announcement, Ajinca signed a 1-year deal with ASVEL that will run through until the end of the 2024-25 season.
Dante Exum remains in the Australian national team roster for the Olympics despite finger injury
Danté Exum is likely to miss some time due to a finger injury but will remain with the Australian Boomers for the 2024 Paris Olympics, sources told ESPN. Exum suffered a dislocated finger in the second quarter of Monday morning’s (AEST) exhibition game between Australia and France, after the guard drove into the lane.
Exum had suffered a compound dislocation of his right index finger but, while there was serious concern in the immediate aftermath of the incident, the scans revealed no fractures, with Exum set to remain with the Boomers ahead of their Olympic opener against Spain on July 27.
Tim MacMahon: Source confirms that Spencer Dinwiddie has agreed to a one-year deal to return to Dallas. Dinwiddie, the sixth man on the Mavs’ conference finals team, provides proven guard depth behind the star duo of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving.
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