Last June, we learned that Floyd Mayweather that his staff and him “were working behind the scenes with the NBA to get a team. “While his fortune is estimated at 500 billion dollars, the boxer assures that he is a billionaire, and during a recent conference, he announced that he had put two billion dollars on the table to afford a NBA franchise.
“I’m working on buying an NBA team”, said Mayweather. “One of my other business partners, Brent Johnson, is here. We’ve been working on this NBA team for a while now. It’s rather complicated. »
A colleague asks him if it will be for Las Vegas. “It could be Vegas. It could be Seattle. Or I could buy an existing franchise,” he continues. For the first offer, we offered just over two billion to become the majority owner. Do I have this amount? Absolutely. But it doesn’t happen overnight. That’s a lot when you have so much business around the world. It’s a lot… “
We will not know more but we must remember that the Suns are for sale after the Robert Sarver affair, and perhaps Mayweather has positioned himself on this franchise. According to Forbes magazine, the Suns are valued at 2.7 billion dollars, and the sale could reach three billion.
