The NBA is 'reviewing' TNT Sports' $1.8billion media-rights offer after the cable network matched the league's agreement with Amazon from earlier this month

The NBA is 'reviewing' TNT Sports' $1.8billion media-rights offer, matching the deal it struck with Amazon Prime earlier this month. 

TNT Sports announced earlier Monday its intention to match one of the offers the NBA accepted, with the league confirming receipt of the contract.  

'We’ve received WBD’s proposal and are in the process of reviewing it,' an NBA spokesperson told DailyMail.com

The NBA does have a right to decline TNT's matching offer and stay with Amazon Prime

Representatives from TNT Sports have not immediately responded to a request for comment from DailyMail.com. 

The new media-rights deal with the NBA is set to begin next season and is slated to last 11 years. 

With TNT Sports matching the offer from Amazon Prime, fan-favorite pre-game show, 'Inside the NBA', which features basketball legends Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley, has a chance to last past this upcoming season.  

With this round of media-rights deals, the NBA has upped its reach in the broadcast world, inking an extension with ESPN and signing deals with NBC and Amazon over the next 11 years and worth around $76billion.

These moves all come while not completely icing out TNT Sports, with who has exclusive rights to many of the games the NBA has sold away through the end of this season. 

For example, the popular In-Season Tournament aired in the United States on TNT and ESPN. Now, those games would move exclusively to Amazon, per The Athletic.

TNT is also currently negotiating a media-rights deal with professional-wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling, the No 2 promotion in America behind the WWE. 

AEW was valued at $2billion by Forbes earlier this year.