The NBA has asked the New York Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit by Warner Bros. Discovery, which alleged that the league breached its contract by rejecting its matching offer for a new media rights deal and instead signed with Amazon.
The league filed its motion for a dismissal late Friday, and it contained the NBA’s pointed reply on several fronts to WBD’s lawsuit filed July 26 — two days after NBA signed a new 11-year media rights deal worth nearly $76 billion with Disney (parent company of ESPN), NBC and Amazon Prime Video that runs from the 2025-26 season through the 2035-36 season.