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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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NBA Teams Need the MBA

I support that plan wholeheartedly and it dovetails with the discussion of Netflix and HBO and theaters that we had earlier. I hadn't considered the idea that somebody could just throw like 50 to $70 billion at the league and take it all private. It's really about this collective bargaining and the fact that for a league to work, we need a common set of rules. And so that's the challenge in making any changes is players get 50% of the revenue. They have no desire or inclination to lower that. Even more so because careers are short.

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