Video of LeBron James getting dunked on by Jordan Crawford finally hit the web on Wednesday, to the shock and awe of absolutely no one. But the dunk itself became the secondary story, as two separate clips of it were released just minutes apart on two different websites.
TMZ was promoting the fact that they had secured the clip, but ended up releasing it about four hours earlier than they had planned. That’s because a previously unheralded site — ebaumnation.com — had secured the rights to a higher-quality video, and was set to go live with it themselves.
As you might imagine, the right to be first with a video like this is going to cost something. Here’s how much these two sites reportedly paid for the honor.
According to The Sporting Blog, TMZ paid $3000 for their clip, and ebaumnation.com …
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