Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, and happy holiday weekend, hopefully you’ve already checked out. Today I’ve got an all Thursday Thoughts issue of WIH, with news and notes on everything from the NBA rights circus to the Scarlett Johansson A.I. saga to the most gag-inducing sighting at Cannes...

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• Zaz’s NBA air ball: Man, is Adam Silver annoyed with David Zaslav and the Warner Bros. Discovery team, per two sources familiar with his thinking. At this point, the NBA commissioner is basically Ferris Bueller after the credits roll: Go home, David… it’s over. As my colleague John Ourand reported, the league has selected its preferred broadcast partners, and they’re...