{"id":30730,"date":"2025-01-17T03:27:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/lebron-jamess-manager-reportedly-advising-5bn-upstart-to-rival-nba\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T03:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:27:44","slug":"lebron-jamess-manager-reportedly-advising-5bn-upstart-to-rival-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/lebron-jamess-manager-reportedly-advising-5bn-upstart-to-rival-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James\u2019s manager reportedly advising $5bn upstart to rival NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Maverick Carter reportedly advising startup effort<\/li>\n<li>James not involved in \u2018F1 for basketball\u2019 league<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maverick Carter, LeBron James\u2019 longtime business manager, is advising investors aiming to launch a global basketball league to rival the NBA, according to reports from <a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/lebron-james-not-involved-in-nba-competitor-league-effort\/\">Front Office Sports<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-01-16\/investors-seek-5-billion-to-form-basketball-league-to-rival-nba\">Bloomberg<\/a>. The group is seeking to raise $5bn from private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and wealthy individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed league would feature six men\u2019s and six women\u2019s teams playing in eight international cities, rotating every two weeks. Singapore is among the planned locations. The format is modeled after Formula 1\u2019s global schedule, designed to create a premium, international basketball experience.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/16\/maverick-carter-nba-rival-basketball-league\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maverick Carter reportedly advising startup effort James not involved in \u2018F1 for basketball\u2019 league Maverick Carter, LeBron James\u2019 longtime business manager, is advising investors aiming to launch a global basketball league to rival the NBA, according to reports from Front Office Sports and Bloomberg. The group is seeking to raise $5bn from private equity funds, &#8230; <a title=\"LeBron James\u2019s manager reportedly advising $5bn upstart to rival NBA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/lebron-jamess-manager-reportedly-advising-5bn-upstart-to-rival-nba\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LeBron James\u2019s manager reportedly advising $5bn upstart to rival NBA\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}