The Los Angeles Lakers are expected to make $12M for their remaining regular season games in the NBA, per Sam Amick of The Athletic.
More specifically, the Lakers will earn $1.5M per game from their TV and radio deals, but they are expected to lose around $8M, because the schedule will not be completed.
“To wit: Sources say the Lakers pull in approximately $1.5 million per game from their RSN deal with Spectrum SportsNet, meaning they’ll recoup $12 million from those games in all while losing an estimated $8 million because the schedule won’t be completed.
As I wrote in March of 2019, the first round is a bigger money-maker for teams than the last three rounds because teams still hold local television and radio rights before yielding in the second round.
For league-wide perspective, one of the lower-end RSN deals that I’ve heard of pays approximately $200,000 per game,” Amick reports, via Christian Rivas of Silver Screen & Roll.
