NBA’s final undefeated team falls as Celtics nearly set NBA 3-point record in win over Bucks

The Brooklyn Nets are continuing to tinker with their frontcourt depth. The latest move will reportedly see Brooklyn sign Moses Brown.

Brooklyn had Nerlens Noel in on a 10 Day contract, but he was fairly ineffective. Rather than sign Noel to a second 10 Day deal, the Nets are moving on to bring in Brown to back up Nicolas Claxton at center.

Brown was with the LA Clippers for the majority of the season, along with a very short stint with the New York Knicks. When he hit the 50-game maximum on his Two-Way deal, Brown and the Clippers mutually agreed to part ways. In 34 NBA games with LA, Brown averaged 4.6 points and 4.1 rebounds in 8.5 minutes per game.

The NBA is formalizing media rights contracts with ESPN, NBC and Amazon this week with sources telling the Sports Business Journal that it is the final stage of negotiations. Deals with the three providers are expected to return over $7 billion per year for the NBA.

ESPN will pay $2.8 billion annually, which is up from an initially reported $2.6 billion for the NBA’s “A” package. That package includes the NBA Finals, a conference final, weekly primetime games, the WNBA and likely shared international rights.

NBC’s “B” package is believed to be worth $2.6 billion annually would probably include a “Basketball Night in America” on Sunday nights following the NFL season, a total of two primetime windows a week, conference semifinals and a conference final.

Amazon’s deal is believed to be worth between $1.8B and $2B and would likely include the Emirates In-Season Tournament, the SoFi Play-In Tournament, first-round playoff games, the WNBA and international rights.

The final changes to the deals have been fluid and changing, but expected to be finalized in the coming days or week. Once the written bids are ratified, the NBA will take NBC’s contract to Warner Bros. Discovery to see if they can match it in “total value.”

WBD may enact legal action over the rights. It’s believed that the TNT parent company could contest its right to match the NBC deal. The NBA and WBD apparently have different definitions of what matching a deal would consist of.