‘Half sellout, half savior’: What Jay-Z’s NFL deal and possible team ownership really mean: three sports attorneys weigh in S_C_
is a sign of things to come,” he says. “The league is looking to become more inclusive, but [Jay-Z] will have to convince owners, a team must be available, and he might need a partner to help raise the money. But it’s not impossible.
Several complicated questions are in play: Can he own a team and his Roc Nation Sports agency at the same time, as a source close to him claimed to? Could he even afford to buy “significant” ownership of a team, even though he’s a newly minted billionaire? And finally, would the other team owners accept him, let alone allow him to make substantive change — such as overseeing a deal to bring back— in the troubled...
While a source reportedly close to Jay told TMZ that the he “is not an NFL agent and does not take part in the operations of the NFL players in Roc Nation” — a statement that was partially walked back by another unnamed— all three were skeptical about how such an arrangement might work in practice.
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