{"id":430696,"date":"2021-04-16T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430696"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:35:16","slug":"dwyane-wade-talks-about-opportunity-to-buy-ownership-stake-in-utah-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dwyane-wade-talks-about-opportunity-to-buy-ownership-stake-in-utah-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwyane Wade Talks About \u2018Opportunity\u2019 To Buy Ownership Stake In Utah Jazz"},"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%2Fdwyane-wade-talks-about-opportunity-to-buy-ownership-stake-in-utah-jazz%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=430696&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Dwyane Wade talks about the \u201copportunity\u201d to buy ownership stake in Utah Jazz and said it goes \u201cway beyond\u201d his dream of playing basketball professionally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis goes way beyond the dream I had to just play basketball in the NBA,\u201d Wade told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/31269662\/dwyane-wade-buys-ownership-stake-utah-jazz-wants-hands-role\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN<\/a> in a piece published Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.6319444444444\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Three-time NBA champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DwyaneWade?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DwyaneWade<\/a> has purchased an ownership stake in the Utah Jazz, joining majority owner and governor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanQualtrics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RyanQualtrics<\/a> with plans to take an active role in the franchise and region. Story on ESPN: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZxtZe8uLey\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZxtZe8uLey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1383092927543533576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen Shaq [ Shaquille O\u2019Neal] do it in Sacramento,\u201d he added.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ve seen Grant Hill do it in Atlanta. I\u2019ve seen [Michael] Jordan do it in Charlotte. If this partnership is going to be anything like my relationship is with Ryan [Smith], there are going to be a lot of things that I\u2019ll want to be involved in.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/03\/10\/dwyane-wade-gambling-losses-problem\/\">(RELATED: Dwyane Wade Lost So Much Money Gambling His Financial Advisor Thought He Had A Problem)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, people in my community don\u2019t get this opportunity, and I do not take it lightly to have this opportunity,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/15\/dwyane-wade-nick-cannon-twitter-support-antisemitic-comments-viacom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wade<\/a> continued. \u201cTo make real change, this is where you have to be \u2014 at the top \u2014 and Ryan knows that. I\u2019m thankful for him, and I know too that I bring a lot to this partnership outside of just my basketball knowledge and skills.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/06\/03\/dwyane-wade-graduation-speech-marjory-stoneman-douglas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Dwyane Wade Gives Graduation Speech At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/02\/18\/dwyane-wade-transgender-gender-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three-time NBA champion<\/a> became friends with the majority owner and team governor Smith shortly after his retirement from basketball in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>It was Smith who brought the idea to Wade to join the ownership group after Ryan had purchased the Jazz team for $1.66 billion in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDwyane has had a chance to be part of so many different [ownership] groups if he wanted that,\u201d Smith told the sports outlet. \u201cWe\u2019ve basically been in discussion from the time we closed on the team on how we can get this done. Like I run my tech business, you want the brightest people around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a broad picture here,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s much more than just basketball. This league is the biggest platform that there is, and we ran toward that. This isn\u2019t a league where we came in saying, \u2018Hey, this has gone somewhere we\u2019re not comfortable with.\u2019 This is actually what we signed up for. We\u2019re the newest ownership group. We\u2019re the youngest. Dwyane\u2019s a perfect fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dwyane said this relationship with the Jazz is multifaceted, \u201cbusiness, basketball\u201d and him \u201cbeing able to bring Ryan into\u201d his world just as Smith\u2019s bringing him \u201cinto his world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwyane Wade talks about the \u201copportunity\u201d to buy ownership stake in Utah Jazz and said it goes \u201cway beyond\u201d his dream of playing basketball professionally.\u201cThis goes way beyond the dream &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276116,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430696","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\/430696","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}