Tony Parker future owner?

Emmanuel LANGELLIER, Media365: published on Tuesday 05 October 2021 at 22:32

President and majority shareholder of ASVEL, Tony Parker dreams of embracing the same function in the NBA.

It has now been more than two years since he retired from the prosecution. But not from the basketball world. Retired since the end of his experience in Charlotte in 2019 after four NBA titles with the San Antonio Spurs, Tony Parker has donned the clothes of president and majority shareholder of ASVEL. A club in which he invested long before hanging up. “I have always dreamed of being an owner, it’s my way of giving back to my sport. It was obvious. Invest in a women’s club also because not many people are interested in women’s sport, ”explained TP Monday evening during a masterclass at the Olympia in Paris.

Tony Parker learns every day from Jean-Michel Aulas

Could we see him in the future coach of a team? Hmmm … not really. “I like recruiting, building a team from A to Z. But also marketing, finance. At Spurs, I always went to meetings with the leaders who have always opened the doors to interested players, ”underlined Parker who is in business with Jean-Michel Aulas, the president of Olympique Lyonnais whom he could succeed in the years to come. “I have an incredible chance to learn from a man like him, from a club listed on the stock exchange. I learn every day ”, confides the one who already sits on the board of directors of the Lyon club.

“My dream one day is to be able to own an NBA club”

But Tony Parker’s other big dream would be in the NBA. “My dream one day is to be able to own an NBA club. To create a group with the French, ”admitted the 39-year-old Frenchman. But this is not obvious at the financial level … “The Spurs are valued at 1.8 billion, I do not have them!” The most expensive are the Lakers and the Knicks, 4 billion, ”noted TP, quadruple NBA champion in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014 with San Antonio.