She helped bankroll Trump, backs Israel\u2019s war in Gaza and traded away Luka Don\u010di\u0107. Dallas fans are furious \u2013 and they\u2019re not alone<\/p>\n
In the NBA, villainy rarely looks like chaos. It often arrives in the form of billionaires who believe their power serves a greater good. The NBA\u2019s old guard of terrible owners \u2013 Donald Sterling, Glen Taylor and Robert Sarver \u2013 have mostly exited the stage, having offloaded their controlling stakes in recent years. Even James Dolan, long regarded as the autocratic overlord of the New York Knicks, has begun to loosen his grip on basketball operations<\/a>. Yet as the league evolves, the absence of these figures creates a vacuum \u2013 one in which a new archetype of villainous owner can emerge. And from where I stand, Miriam Adelson is the No 1 example.<\/p>\n Adelson, the widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, is worth around $27bn<\/a>, making her one of the world\u2019s richest women. Her fortune primarily stems from gambling her majority ownership in the Las Vegas Sands casino and resort company. In late 2023, she purchased majority ownership of the Dallas Mavericks from Mark Cuban for $3.5bn<\/a>. In a little over two years in charge, she has alienated large parts of the team\u2019s fanbase by allowing the trade of a generational superstar<\/a>, Luka Don\u010di\u0107, who took the team to the NBA finals last season.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She helped bankroll Trump, backs Israel\u2019s war in Gaza and traded away Luka Don\u010di\u0107. Dallas fans are furious \u2013 and they\u2019re not alone In the NBA, villainy rarely looks like chaos. It often arrives in the form of billionaires who believe their power serves a greater good. The NBA\u2019s old guard of terrible owners \u2013 … 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-38892","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\/38892","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=38892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}