Warner Bros. Discovery has sued the NBA in an effort to keep distributing the league's games, after it chose NBCUniversal and Amazon as new media partners.
Warner Bros. Discovery is attempting to use matching rights on a package of games earmarked for Amazon Prime Video, which the NBA chose as a media partner along with Walt Disney and NBCUniversal.
"Given the NBA's unjustified rejection of our matching of a third-party offer, we have taken legal action to enforce our rights," the company's TNT Sports unit said in a statement.
In a letter the NBA sent to Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday, the league pointed to the contractual language of the 2014 matching rights as its reason for rejecting the offer. Still, Warner Bros. Discovery's matching rights agreement is five pages long, and the company believes it has a strong case, the people said.
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