"I think that Adam Silver's got to get a hold of this thing. I think the games are too disjointed right now. NBC, Peacock, Amazon. I think we have disrespected the fans."
"The New York Times Company has 20 days to respond to the grievance, and the Times Guild will have 45 days to file for an arbitration hearing if the company denies the grievance."
"You can take issue with the vision and how the situation was managed but an investment in The Athletic makes no sense if the Times doesn't prioritize its importance."
"The paper plans to transition all the employees who were with the newspaper's sports department to positions at The Athletic, which the New York Times Company purchased last year for $550 million."
"We have watched the company buy a competitor with hundreds of sportswriters and weigh decisions about the future of sports coverage at The Times without, in many instances, so much as a courtesy call, let alone any solicitation of our expertise."
"Our hope is that's with our partners at Netflix. We've been very fortunate with the outreach we've gotten around what we did and what we accomplished and what we delivered."