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News N.B.A. Announces Lucrative Rights Deals With Disney, Comcast and Amazon
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News Pay for Lawyers is So High People Are Comparing It to the N.B.A.
Hotshot Wall Street lawyers are now so in demand that bidding wars between firms for their services can resemble the frenzy among teams to sign star athletes. Eight-figure pay packages — rare a decade ago — are increasingly common for corporate lawyers at the top of their game, and many of these new heavy hitters…
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News As N.B.A. TV Deal Nears, Warner Bros. Discovery Is on the Outside
Warner Bros. Discovery executives thought they had given the National Basketball Association a proposal it would accept. In April, after months of negotiations, the company made an offer to pay billions of dollars to the league for the rights to continue showing its games on TNT, as well as its Max streaming service. TNT has…
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News Bill Walton, N.B.A. Hall of Famer and Broadcasting Star, Dies at 71
Bill Walton, a basketball center whose extraordinary passing and rebounding skills helped him win two national college championships with U.C.L.A. and one each with the Portland Trail Blazers and the Boston Celtics of the N.B.A., and who overcame a stutter to become a loquacious broadcast commentator, died on Monday at his home in San Diego….
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