Warner Bros. Discovery, TNT's parent company, alleges that the league breached its contract by declining WBD's offer for a new media rights deal and instead signing with Amazon, according to documents obtained by ESPN.

"Given the NBA's unjustified rejection of our matching of a third-party offer, we have taken legal action to enforce our rights," TNT Sports said in a statement Friday. "We strongly believe this is not just our contractual right, but also in the best interest of fans who want to keep watching our industry-leading NBA content with the choice and flexibility we offer them through our widely distributed WBD video-first distribution platforms -- including TNT and Max."

In a statement released Friday, NBA spokesman Mike Bass said WBD's claims "are without merit, and our lawyers will address them."

WBD's lawsuit comes two days after the NBA announced an 11-year media rights deal worth almost $76 billion with Disney, NBC and Amazon Prime Video. The deal runs from the 2025-26 season through the 2035-36 season.

WBD said Monday that it had matched Amazon's offer of $1.8 billion per year, up from the $1.4 billion that WBD is paying now on a nine-year deal that expires following the 2024-25 season.

With the NBA declining to accept WBD's offer, the league is ending a nearly four-decade partnership that began in the 1984-85 season.

The move will come in 2025, as Wells Fargo chose not to renew the contract that gives its naming rights to the venue.

"Wells Fargo regularly reviews and adjusts our overall sponsorship strategy. As such, we have made the business decision not to renew the naming rights contract to Wells Fargo Center," a Wells Fargo spokesperson told NBC10 Philadelphia in a statement.

"We look forward to collaborating on live entertainment and sporting events at the Wells Fargo Center through the end of our contract in August 2025."

Wells Fargo has had naming rights for the arena for 14 years.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), TNT's parent company, said Monday that it had matched one of the offers from the latest round of NBA television rights negotiations. Reportedly, WBD was matching the bid of newcomer Amazon, estimated to be 11 years for $1.8 billion per year.

WBD is currently paying $1.4 billion per season on a nine-year deal that expires after the 2024-25 season.

The league, however, said in a release that WBD's most recent proposal didn't match the terms of Amazon Prime Video's offer and it was moving forward with a long-term agreement with Amazon.

The NBA's Board of Governors last week approved a new set of rights fees reportedly totaling $76 billion over 11 years with Amazon, Disney, which owns ABC and ESPN, and Comcast, which owns NBC.

"Throughout these negotiations, our primary objective has been to maximize the reach and accessibility of our games for our fans," the NBA statement read. "Our new arrangement with Amazon supports this goal by complementing the broadcast, cable and streaming packages that are already part of our new Disney and NBCUniversal arrangements. All three partners have also committed substantial resources to promote the league and enhance the fan experience."

TNT, as part of Turner Sports, has broadcast league games since 1989, making it the longest-running media partner. It produces the popular "Inside the NBA" pregame and postgame shows.

"We are grateful to Turner Sports for its award-winning coverage of the NBA and look forward to another season of the NBA on TNT," the league said Wednesday.

WBD could counter with legal action. In the meantime, the NBA moved ahead with details of the new agreements to show games on NBCUniversal (NBCU), ABC, ESPN, NBC/Peacock and Prime Video.

There will be about 75 regular-season games on broadcast TV each season, an increase from the minimum of 15 in the current agreement. All national games will be available on streaming services Prime Video, Peacock and ESPN's upcoming direct-to-consumer service.

"Our new global media agreements with Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon will maximize the reach and accessibility of NBA games for fans in the United States and around the world," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a press release. "These partners will distribute our content across a wide range of platforms and help transform the fan experience over the next decade."

According to media reports, ESPN will pay $2.6 billion annually for rights to the NBA Finals and other games, Comcast will pay the same for regular season and playoff games, and Amazon will pay $1.8 billion for a package including some playoff games, including conference finals series.

Topic, who is expected to miss the 2024-25 season, sustained the injury in April. The 18-year-old was selected by the Thunder with the 12th overall pick of the 2024 NBA Draft in June.

The 6-foot-5 Serbian guard averaged 18.4 points, 7.1 assists and 3.6 rebounds in 12 games with Mega of the Adriatic League in 2023-24. He also contributed 14.5, 5.0 and 4.0, respectively, in two games with Crvena zvezda.

No financial figures were available for the deal, which will run through the 2027-28 season, per the report.

The Knicks were the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs after finishing last season with a 50-32 record. In four seasons with New York, the 66-year-old Thibodeau has a 175-143 record in the regular season, 14-15 in the playoffs.

The Knicks lost to the Indiana Pacers in seven games in the Eastern Conference semifinals -- their second straight appearance in the round. New York has reached the playoffs in three of Thibodeau's four seasons.

He previously coached the Chicago Bulls (2010-15) and the Minnesota Timberwolves (2016-19) and has a cumulative record of 527-389.

Thibodeau was the NBA Coach of the Year in 2020-21, 10 years after he won the honor for the first time with the Bulls.

The 2024 second-round pick underwent a procedure Monday to repair his left fifth metatarsal bone with Dr. Robert Anderson in Charlotte, N.C.

Durisic sustained the injury in a Summer League game against San Antonio on July 14 in Las Vegas. The Hawks will update his status in November.

The 20-year-old Belgium international was selected by the Miami Heat with the No. 43 overall pick last month and traded to Atlanta on draft night.

He will be under contract through the 2027-28 season once he signs the deal. The Pacers will decline their $2.2 million team option for the 2025-26 campaign, replacing it with the extension, per ESPN.

The Pacers selected Nembhard, a Gonzaga product, with the No. 31 overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. In 143 games (110 starts) over two NBA regular seasons, he has averages of 9.3 points, 2.4 rebounds and 4.3 assists.

In 17 playoff starts en route to the Eastern Conference finals in 2023-24, he averaged 14.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 5.5 assists on 56.0 percent shooting -- 48.3 percent from 3-point range.

An Ontario native, the 24-year-old Nembhard is playing in the Olympics with Team Canada.

The Sixers reeled in George with a four-year, $212 million max contract earlier this month. They were able to do so because Maxey waited his turn for an extension of his own, giving Philadelphia's front office the ability to maneuver within the salary cap.

Maxey, winner of the NBA's Most Improved Player award, has since inked a five-year, $204 million max extension, forming a core trio that should give 76ers fans hope to compete with the Boston Celtics, New York Knicks and others in the Eastern Conference.

"By being patient, he allowed us to put this offseason together, to really put us in position to be one of the very few legitimate contenders in the league this year," 76ers president Daryl Morey said Tuesday.

Team owner Josh Harris was on hand at the team's back-to-back press conferences for Maxey and George and heralded the new group as "among, if not the best team we've had since I've been here."

George, 34, is coming off his ninth All-Star season in which he averaged 22.6 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game while shooting 41.3 percent from 3-point range. He's seen as the piece the 76ers' offense was sorely missing on the wing.

"Joel has secretly been one of my closest All-Star Game friends," George said of Embiid, the former league MVP currently with Team USA in Paris for the Olympics. "It kind of felt inevitable that at some point, we would link up and be teammates."

George also insisted he has "no ill will" toward his former team, the Los Angeles Clippers, whose initial offer to him he termed "disrespectful."

"I thought everything just aligned perfectly," George said of joining Philadelphia. "... I'm all in. My family's here all in, and I'm excited, and looking forward to this next opportunity."

As for Maxey, 23, the timing worked out perfectly for him to get a payday after his fourth and most successful season in the league. The 2020 first-round pick averaged 25.9 points, 6.2 assists and 3.7 rebounds in 70 games (all starts) in 2023-24.

"It's a very hard thing to do, especially when you work extremely hard," Maxey said of being patient for his extension. "But when they brought it to me, I understood. ... You don't have that many opportunities as a franchise to do something like that."

Reports said earlier Tuesday that veteran guard Reggie Jackson planned to sign with the 76ers after clearing waivers. The 34-year-old appeared in all 82 games for the Denver Nuggets last season and averaged 10.2 points and 3.8 assists.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed for Jackson, who agreed to a contract buyout from Charlotte Hornets.

The Hornets acquired Jackson and three future second-round draft picks from the Denver Nuggets last month for cash considerations and a 2025 second-round pick.

Jackson, 34, averaged 10.2 points and 3.8 assists and shot 35.9 percent from 3-point range playing in all 82 games last season for the Nuggets.

An NBA champion with Denver in 2022-23, Jackson has averaged 12.6 points, 4.2 assists and 2.8 rebounds in 853 career games (529 starts) with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers and Nuggets.

The Thunder selected Jackson with the 24th overall pick of the 2011 NBA Draft.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), TNT's parent company, announced Monday it had matched one of the offers from the latest round of NBA television rights negotiations.

Several reports indicated that TNT matched the bid of newcomer Amazon, estimated to be 11 years for $1.8 billion per year.

The NBA received proposals from NBC and Amazon earlier this month. ABC/ESPN, owned by Disney, would retain the "A package," which includes the NBA Finals. The "B package" would go to NBC and Amazon planned to have the "C package" stream on Prime Video. The NBA Board of Governors approved the deals, worth a combined $76 billion, last week.

Turner, a longtime NBA partner known for the studio show "Inside the NBA," is now trying to get back in on the action.

"In an effort to continue our long-standing partnership, during both exclusive and non-exclusive negotiation periods, we acted in good faith to present strong bids that were fair to both parties," TNT Sports said in a statement. "Regrettably, the league notified us of its intention to accept other offers for the games in our current rights package, leaving us to proceed under the matching rights provision, which is an integral part of our current agreement and the rights we have paid for under it.

"We have reviewed the offers and matched one of them. This will allow fans to keep enjoying our unparalleled coverage, including the best live game productions in the industry and our iconic studio shows and talent, while building on our proven 40-year commitment for many more years.

The statement, which the NBA has yet to comment on, finished by leaving the ball in the league's court.

"Our matching paperwork was submitted to the league today. We look forward to the NBA executing our new contract."

WBD is currently paying $1.4 billion per season on a nine-year deal that expires after the 2024-25 season.

Dinwiddie, 31, scored 17.7 points per game with the Mavericks during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons.

He split time last season between Brooklyn and the Los Angeles Lakers, averaging 10.5 points in 76 games (52 starts) overall.

For his career, Dinwiddie is averaging 13.3 points and 5.2 assists in 542 games (315 starts) with the Detroit Pistons, Nets, Washington Wizards, Mavericks and Lakers. He averaged a career-best 20.6 points per game in 2019-20 with Brooklyn.

Dinwiddie was selected in the second round of the 2014 draft by the Pistons.

A Chicago native, Steward, 22, was a standout for the Bulls' Las Vegas Summer League team, including a 37-point effort on Friday against Atlanta.

The 6-foot-2 Steward appeared in 32 games (five starts) for the Maine Celtics -- Boston's G League affiliate -- last season and averaged 19.3 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 29.7 minutes.

He has career averages of 15.5 points, 3.9 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 27.2 minutes in 90 games (26 starts) in G League tenures with the Stockton Kings (2021-23) and Maine Celtics (2023-24).

Steward went undrafted after one season at Duke in 2020-21, when he averaged 13.0 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.4 assists over 24 games (22 starts) in making the Atlantic Coast Conference All-Freshman first team.

The Bulls' roster has 19 players, including the maximum three players under two-way contracts in Steward, guard Andrew Funk and forward Adama Sanogo.

Hauser, who will make $2.1 million in the upcoming season, will be under contract through 2028-29.

Hauser, 26, averaged 9.0 points and 3.5 rebounds in 79 games (13 starts) in 2023-24.

He shot 42.4 percent from 3-point range last season and has made 42.2 percent of his shots from beyond the arc since joining Boston in 2021-22 after being undrafted out of Virginia.

Mobley could end up making as much as $269 million, per the report.

A first-round draft pick (third overall) by Cleveland in 2021, Mobley averaged 15.7 points, 9.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks in 50 games (all starts) last season. He finished second in Rookie of the Year voting back in 2022 and came away with All-Defensive honors a year later.

Mobley, 23, posted career-high shooting percentages across the board this past season, connecting on 58 percent of his field-goal attempts, 37.3 percent of his 3-pointers and 71.9 percent of his free throws.

In 198 career games (all starts) in his three seasons with the Cavaliers, Mobley has averaged 15.6 points, 8.8 boards, 2.8 assists and 1.5 blocks.

Per the report, the Grizzlies will receive forward Mamadi Diakite and the draft rights to 31-year-old Serbian wing Nemanja Dangubic, the 54th overall pick of the 2014 NBA Draft. Diakite had been dealt to the Nets earlier this month in the trade that sent forward Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks.

The 2030 second-round pick is via the Dallas Mavericks. The Grizzlies reportedly are working toward re-signing guard Luke Kennard.

Williams, 22, averaged 8.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 51 games (15 starts) last season. He has contributed 7.5 points, 2.6 boards and 1.2 assists in 150 career games (50 starts) since he was selected with the 10th overall pick of the 2021 NBA Draft out of Stanford.

Diakite, 27, averaged 2.0 points in six games off the bench last season split between the San Antonio Spurs and Knicks. He has played for five teams since entering the NBA during the 2020-21 campaign.

"I would love for him to play in a game, but we have to take it day by day," Kerr said Friday, as the team prepared for Saturday night's game in London against South Sudan.

"He'll get some practice in today and we'll see where he is tomorrow."

Durant, 35, suffered the injury in the days leading up to the start of Team USA's camp in early July. Durant was non-committal about playing in the exhibition games but said he is seeing "progress every day."

"It's one of those things you just got to monitor every day and I see how I feel after I do certain movements and certain exercises," he said. "But my thing is just keep working and see what happens."

Team USA will meet Germany on Tuesday before heading to Paris for the Olympics.

Durant has won three gold medals and is one of the greats in U.S. Olympic basketball history.

He leads the Americans all-time in points (435), points per game (19.8), field goals (146), 3-point field goals (74) and free throws (69). He also ranks third in rebounds (118) and blocks (16) and fourth in games played (24) and assists (71).

In the past three Olympics, he has led the tournament in points averaged per game: 20.7 (2020, Tokyo), 19.5 (2012, London) and 19.4 (2016, Rio de Janeiro).

The Americans, vying for a fifth consecutive gold medal, open pool play at the Paris Olympics on July 28 against Serbia, followed by games against South Sudan (July 31) and Puerto Rico (Aug. 3).

According to the report, Westbrook is expected to agree on a contract buyout with the Jazz and then sign a free-agent deal with the Nuggets. Westbrook was in line to make $4.03 million next season in the second year of a two-year deal with the Clippers.

The Clippers are also swapping second-round picks and sending cash to the Jazz, while Los Angeles acquired guard Kris Dunn in a sign-and-trade deal.

Westbook's ultimate move to Denver will come after he clears waivers.

Westbrook, 35, joined the Clippers late in the 2022-23 season after he was traded from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Jazz and then waived. He returned to a starting role late in the season during a short 21-game stint with the Clippers then transitioned to a bench role last season and finished seventh in Sixth Man of the Year voting.

Westbrook averaged 11.1 points with 5.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Clippers last season in 68 games (11 starts).

In 16 NBA seasons, the nine-time All-Star and 2016-17 MVP has averaged 21.7 points with 7.1 rebounds and 8.1 assists in 1,162 games (1,039 starts) for the Oklahoma City Thunder (2008-19), Houston Rockets (2019-20), Washington Wizards (2020-21), Lakers (2021-23) and Clippers.

Dunn, 30, averaged 5.4 points with 2.9 rebounds and 3.8 assists in 66 games (32 starts) for the Jazz last season. In eight NBA seasons with five different teams, Dunn has averaged 7.9 points with 3.3 rebounds and 4.2 assists in 333 games (164 starts).

The game will be contested on Oct. 6 and be the eighth time the Raptors have played in Montreal. The team last played a game in the Quebec city in 2022.

Montreal natives Chris Boucher and Quincy Guerrier are on Toronto's training camp roster. Canadian Olympians Kelly Olynyk and RJ Barrett are also expected to play for the Raptors.

Williams died of complications from viral pneumonia, the Magic said in a release.

Along with businessman Jimmy Hewitt, Williams started to work toward getting Orlando an NBA franchise back in 1986. A year later, the NBA Board of Governors gave an expansion franchise to the city, and on Dec. 22, 1988, the Magic sold their 10,000th ticket to officially bring the team to the league.

That was just a sliver of Williams' NBA career, which lasted 51 years and included over 30 with the Magic.

"Pat Williams simply brought magic to Orlando," Magic chairman Dan DeVos and CEO Alex Martins said in a joint statement. "His accomplishments will always be remembered. Armed with his ever-present optimism and unparalleled energy, he was an incredible visionary who helped transform the world of sports in multiple ways.

"From bringing the Magic to Orlando, to transforming sports marketing and promotions, he was always ahead of the curve. Pat forever changed the sports landscape in Orlando. He shined a light on what those who called Orlando home already knew -- that Central Florida was a fabulous place to live, work and play."

After serving as the 76ers' business manager in 1968, Williams ended up being general manager of the Chicago Bulls and Atlanta Hawks before returning to Philadelphia -- where he spent 12 years as the Sixers' GM.

With Williams' help, the 76ers won a championship in 1983. Williams moved on from Philadelphia three years later to begin his endeavors with the Magic.

"He loved a challenge, and when he moved our family to Orlando to start the Magic, he was full of excitement and energy that he displayed every day," Williams' family said in a statement. "We all grew up believing that anything is possible because of his unwavering enthusiasm for what he was passionate about.

"Those who attended the games, saw him at church or spent time with him in a social setting know that he never met a stranger and was always quick with an encouraging word. He was a giver, a teacher, the ultimate cheerleader, and he was a life-long learner."

Before his success in basketball, Williams put together a memorable career in baseball, starting with his time at Wake Forest. Williams got a scholarship to attend the university, and he was a three-year letterman as a catcher for the Demon Deacons.

In addition to being a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., Williams is also in the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame.

The Philadelphia Phillies signed Williams in 1962. The catcher spent two seasons with the Miami Marlins, who were a Class A club in the Florida State League. Williams eventually joined their front office in 1964 as business manager, later taking over as general manager of the Spartanburg (S.C.) Phillies in 1965.

Outside the sporting world, Williams was an author, writing over 100 books.

Williams also ran 58 marathons from 1996 to 2011, finishing the Boston Marathon 13 times.

"I love being in Sacramento and I am excited for this next chapter," Brown said in a release.

The Kings have found some stability under Brown, following a run of 11 head and interim coaches in 16 seasons since Rick Adelman departed in 2006.

"Mike has done a tremendous job leading our team and this extension is well deserved," Kings general manager Monte McNair said. "His commitment to success is second to none and I look forward to building on the foundation he's helped establish in Sacramento."

In 2022-23, Brown was named NBA Coach of the Year after leading the Kings to the playoffs for the first time since Adelman was at the helm. Sacramento was eliminated in the play-in round this season.

In two seasons under Brown, the Kings are 94-70 in the regular season.

Brown, 54, has a 441-286 career record in six seasons as coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, parts of two seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and two with the Kings. His teams are 50-40 in the playoffs.

Brown took the Cavaliers to the NBA Finals in 2007, when they were swept by the San Antonio Spurs.