Antitrust plaintiffs routinely allege narrow relevant markets contorted to meet their litigation needs, without regard to market realities. In the consumer-facing sports entertainment market, this manifests in attempts to define the relevant market as a single sports league’s product, thereby exaggerating any anticompetitive effects of the league’s business practices. Most modern courts reject a single-brand market definition as implausible and fatally confusing the concepts of brand loyalty
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