{"id":1510334,"date":"2022-06-10T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510334"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:50:04","slug":"billionaire-lebron-james-i-want-to-own-a-team-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billionaire-lebron-james-i-want-to-own-a-team-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire LeBron James: I Want To Own A Team In Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbillionaire-lebron-james-i-want-to-own-a-team-in-las-vegas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510334&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Speaking on his HBO television show \u201cThe Shop,\u201d NBA star LeBron James, 37, \u00a0stated he wants to own a team in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>James recently was feted as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chasewithorn\/2022\/06\/02\/lebron-james-is-officially-a-billionaire\/?sh=756cbb4e453e\">second billionaire<\/a> to have played in the NBA, following Michael Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to own a team, I want to buy a team, for sure,\u201d James <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10902433\/LeBron-James-eyes-NBA-franchise-ownership-Las-Vegas-billionaire.html\">said<\/a> in clip from his show. \u201cI would much rather own a team before I talk. I want a team in Vegas. Yeah, I want the team in Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James already serves as a part owner of the Boston Red Sox since he joined Fenway Sports Group (FSG) as a partner.<\/p>\n<p>NBA Commission Adam Silver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-talks-about-league-expansion-potential-all-nba-changes-ahead-of-finals\/\">dismissed rumors<\/a> of moving one of the NBA\u2019s teams to Las Vegas or Seattle last week, contending, \u201cThat talk is not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I said before, at some point, this league invariably will expand, but it\u2019s not at this moment that we are discussing it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the factors in expanding is the potential dilution of talent, Silver said. \u201cAs I\u2019ve said before, I find it remarkable that when you have the second-most-played sport in the world after soccer, tens of millions of young men playing in this game, and then you have the 450 best in the world in this league, that there\u2019s a few of them who separate themselves even among those 450 as the very best of the best, but there is then a fall-off, a drop-off in talent after that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo expansion does create a certain amount of dilution,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd even sort of adding another 30 players or so that are roughly comparable, there still are only so many of the truly top-tier super talents to go around. That is something on the mind of the other teams as we think about expansion. But those are wonderful markets. We\u2019ll be looking at it at some point, but there\u2019s no specific timeline right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are wonderful markets,\u201d Silver <a href=\"https:\/\/nba.nbcsports.com\/2022\/06\/03\/nba-expansion-in-2024-adam-silver-says-that-talk-is-not-true\/\">continued<\/a>. \u201cAgain, as I\u2019ve said before, we were in Seattle. I\u2019m sorry we are no longer there. We have a WNBA team in Seattle in an almost brand-new building that\u2019s doing spectacular. And Las Vegas, where will be at our Summer League in July, has shown itself to be a great sports market as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Oak View Group has already announced it has plans to build an \u201cNBA ready\u201d arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLas Vegas is the entertainment capital and so what we have to build is the best we have ever built for Las Vegas,\u201d OVG chief executive officer Tim Leiweke opined to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/03\/30\/las-vegas-sports-district-3-billion-arena-hotel-and-casino-project-planned.html\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould the NBA decide to come and by the way, there\u2019s no certainty or no guarantees that the NBA is ever coming to Vegas, but should they come, we certainly will be NBA ready,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on his HBO television show \u201cThe Shop,\u201d NBA star LeBron James, 37, \u00a0stated he wants to own a team in Las Vegas. James recently was feted as the second billionaire to have played in the NBA, following Michael Jordan. \u201cI want to own a team, I want to buy a team, for sure,\u201d James &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1510447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}