Warner Bros. Discovery Is Going to War With the NBA

Despite Warner Bros. Discovery matching an offer made by Amazon, the NBA has taken a pass, effectively shutting WBD out of the next round of rights deals in favor of the streaming service. David Zaslav is reportedly pissed. Losing the NBA on TNT would obviously be catastrophic, and “there is a broad expectation that Warner Bros. Discovery will take the NBA to court” to try and keep this marriage together. (Variety)

The first two episodes of Netflix’s emotional Simone Biles Rising are riveting, inspiring, and infuriating. (Lainey Gossip)

Sydney Sweeney got hacked by cryptoscammers. (Celebitchy)

I regret to inform you that J.D. Vance did not f*ck a couch. (Wonkette)

Andrew and his co-host Ryan Sprague interviewed David Howard Thornton who plays Art The Clown in the Terrifier films. But it’s a wrestling podcast, so of course they made him talk about Doink The Clown. (Apple)

The Swifties have activated for Kamala Harris. (The Mary Sue)

David Cross revisits the Conan interview that cost him $150,000. (LateNighter)

Twitter replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason. (The Verge)

Chris Brown is accused of assaulting his own concertgoers. (The Daily Beast)

Drea de Matteo’s 13-year-old son edits her what now?? (Page Six)

Wow, damn, James Mangold is clearly not loving the multiverse shenanigans that brought Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine back. (Rolling Stone)

When persnickety chick started reading Mercedes Lackey’s Brightly Burning, she noticed its similarities to Clariel by Garth Nix, though the stories diverge later. “Strikingly, both stories start with the main character, in their late teens, being required to move reluctantly to a city as the result of their parent’s careers, being required to go to a school (presented each time as an innovation) and not getting along with many of their peers at the school.” What two unrelated books would you pair together? (Cannonball Read 16)