A report from Pablo Torre suggested that the NBA blocked Miriam Adelson from becoming the primary owner of the Dallas Mavericks after she bought a majority stake in the team from Mark Cuban last year.
OutKick reached out to the league about the report. NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in a statement: “The report is categorically false.”
Torre’s report noted that Adelson and her late husband are massive donors to Donald Trump.
Torre then attributed this as the primary reason that the league did not want Adelson to have full control of the franchise, and instead, appointed her son-in-law, Patrick Dumont, as the team’s governor and representative to the NBA Board of Governors. The NBA is denying a Pablo Torre report that the league didn’t allow Miriam Adelson, a prominent donor to Donald Trump, to be the primary owner of the Dallas Mavericks. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) “Her political reputation was […]
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