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The National Basketball Association is on a full-court press to secure its next round of broadcast rights, but the other team's injured list is growing longer by the day.

Regional sports networks (RSNs) that air local games are in freefall, just as the media conglomerates that own national rights -- Disney (via ESPN and ABC) and Warner Bros Discovery (via TNT) -- prepare for a new era of penny-pinching. According to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday, the headwinds double-team is forcing the league to get creative ahead of what it expected to be its next big payday.

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