the dream of having his NBA team in Las Vegas

LeBron James continues to shape his life beyond his elite basketball career. For many the best player in history, with the permission of Michael Jordanis known for the business interest he has thanks to the fortune he has built around his professional and advertising contracts.

For this reason, he has recently confessed what is one of the great vital challenges that he has right now. ‘El Rey’ dreams of having his own franchise NBA and you are already studying how to access the ownership of a computer. In addition, he has a double objective, and that is that he wants to install this new entity in one of the most emblematic and glamorous cities in the country.

Is about Las Vegas, a big city where there is currently no team from the best basketball league in the world. LeBron James has always liked to undertake big projects and this would undoubtedly be one of the best ways to continue expanding an empire that is on its way to living up to his sports legend.

“I want to own a team. I want to buy a team, of course. I want a team in Vegas.” This is how the player himself has confessed within another of his great initiatives, his television program The Shop. In a preview of it, LeBron has announced what will be one of his great projects for the coming years.

Dispute with the NBA

It is not the first time that James talks about this possibility, that of buying an NBA team. Since he was able to create one of the greatest fortunes in sports history, he has always had the ambition to spread his success and his legacy across different teams and sports. And after starting other adventures, he also wants to leave his legacy in the world of basketball.

However, his dream collides head-on with one of the great struggles that the NBA has open right now and that is the territorial reduction of the league. For this reason, the management of the best competition in the world does not consider establishing a new franchise in a city like Las Vegas.

Adam Silver, NBA commissioner and authoritative voice on the matter, thus assessed the situation of that hypothetical expansion: “It’s not true. Perhaps some in the league will talk about a potential expansion after the 2024 season. At some point this league will expand, but not right now.” He thus answered when he was asked the possibility of a return to Seattle and an arrival in Las Vegas.

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For many it might sound crazy that an NBA player dreams of having his own team, in the style of what happened in his day with Michael Jordan when he came to town Charlotte to buy them Bobcats. However, LeBron has become a multimillionaire thanks to the impressive contracts he has signed throughout his extensive career.

Magazine Forbes recently published that James had become the first active player in the NBA who was capable of having a fortune of more than 1,000 million dollars. An outrage that scares just listening to it, but that helps to understand that the desire to have his own franchise may be more than real.

The publication assured that ‘King’ had accumulated with his contracts in the Cleveland Cavalierslos Miami Heat y Los Angeles Lakers profits approaching 385 million dollars. However, these figures skyrocketed through their advertising deals, which amounted to up to 900 million dollars. To this should be added the businesses that the Los Angeles franchise player has been setting up in recent years.

James reaches this milestone and thus equals the other great basketball legend who was able to reach this impressive figure: Michael Jordan. The player born in Akron has always competed to follow in the footsteps of the Bulls legend and the economic section seems to be one more of his historic battle.

If he got his own NBA team, James would add the franchise to his other two sports possessions. The forward is co-owner of the Liverpoolwell-known team of the Premier League football, and Boston Red Sox of baseball. This was his most unusual purchase considering he is the star of the storied rival shamrock team franchise based in the state capital of Massachusetts.

Vegas success

The choice of LeBron James for Las Vegas, in addition to the glamor and excitement that comes with relating to the city of gambling, also corresponds to the enormous growth that this city is experiencing in the sporting aspect. Without going any further, this season it has become the first city in history to host two All-Star simultaneously. were the Pro Bowl of the NFL and the game of the stars of the NHL.

In recent years, this famous city has managed to attract Golden Knights of the NHL in 2017, Las Vegas Raiders of the NFL in 2020 and Las Vegas Aces from WNBA in 2018. Other great sports milestones that the city has experienced are the inauguration in 2020 of the Allegiant Stadiuma stadium with a capacity for 65,000 spectators that is the home of the Raiders, and host the final of the gold Cup in between Mexico y USA in 2021. In addition, it is expected that the coming years will continue to leave an important trail of successes.

The Super Bowl will arrive for the first time in the state of Nevada in the year 2024 in a great party that will be celebrated precisely in the Allegiant Stadium. In addition, the possibility that some franchise of the MLB move there too. And finally there is the desire to receive European football matches, especially a Classic of The league between Real Madrid and the Barçaa project that has generated great controversy in spainand the creation of a Formula 1 Grand Prix which will see the light next year.

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