David Samson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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And in the purchase agreement for the Mavericks, it outlines exactly what the powers will be of Mark Cuban and his retained 27%.
It's about as much power as you have, Dan, with the Mavericks.
Nico...
It's like saying that Mike Hill would have been involved in the sale of the team to Derek Jeter.
He had nothing to do with it at all.
You're not allowed to have highlights on YouTube.
It gets taken down unless you pay the league for highlight rights.
For crying out loud, what Adam was trying to respond to was someone asking, hey, is it really too expensive to watch NBA games?
And his only answer was, yeah, but let's talk about the fact that you get highlights for free, like by watching SportsCenter, and highlights are what people are interested in anyway.
We're a highlight league?
Boy, season ticket salespeople are super excited to have him say that.
People who work in in-game entertainment, people trying to advertise like Aspiration in the Intuit Dome, trying to say, oh, people love going to games.
Adam's saying, no, no, we just engage with highlights.
I found that to be, again, are his PR people like asleep at the switch?
What is going on?
You can do it in such a nicer way.
You know, they got billions of dollars for their broadcast rights and a deal that's starting their franchise valuations are going up.
I think what you say there, if you're Adam Silver, is we're trying to make it as easy as possible for you, the fan, to access our games, which is why there's so many more national games and more nights that you can access our games and all the other great content on these streaming services.
We're doing this for you, the fans.