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...Basketball star LeBron James and other US celebrities lined up to watch Messi’s debut last August, and were rewarded with a stoppage-time free-kick winner....
...But both forms of entertainment thrive on a similar ethos. Emanuel and McMahon are showmen who know the value of content and how to monetise it....
...stake in the entertainment and media group....
...ESPN broadcasts live sports in the US, including games of the National Football League, National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball....
...NBA game in the Gulf, where they will face the Atlanta Hawks in an exhibition in October....
...During that time they have participated in exhibition matches in London and Paris, and will play the first-ever NBA game on the Arabian peninsula when the Bucks face the Atlanta Hawks this October....
...It’s entertainment. It’s Wall Street. It’s glitz and glamour,” he says, drawing out his o’s as if each of them is underlined and capitalised. “But Philly is a blue-collar place; it’s a union town....
...Michael Dell and Sixth Street shoot hoops It was an action-packed weekend in the US National Basketball Association playoffs, with two Game 7s and one sartorial diss by the Atlanta Hawks’ John Collins....
...And we loved watching the rising anti-hero of the league, Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks, shimmying his way to a potential spot in the finals. To paraphrase Taylor Swift: haters can shake it off....
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@FT.com. Caesars’ hot hand Early in 2020, it was like déjà vu all over again for Caesars Entertainment....
...If Mills & Boon were writing the script, the tormented romance of the American basketball star, the pachinko princess and her billionaire father would end in reconciliation and joy....
...Basketball star LeBron James has been a minority owner of Liverpool since 2011....
...Mr Maffei is the main architect of a strategy that has seen Liberty assemble a portfolio of media, sports and cable assets, including baseball’s Atlanta Braves, SiriusXM satellite radio and LiveNation Entertainment...
...in sports, media and entertainment....
...Kelly Loeffler, co-owner of Atlanta Dream, a team in the Women's National Basketball Association, has clashed with the League over its plans to “honour” Black Lives Matter....
...The club’s owners, a group that includes basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson and management of financial services firm Guggenheim Partners, are sounding out investors in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea...
...“We and Silver Lake share the strong belief in the opportunities being presented by the convergence of entertainment, sports and technology,” CFG chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said in a statement....
...Casino chain Caesars Entertainment is moving closer to a combination with rival El Dorado in a cash-and-stock deal that could kick-start a wave of consolidation in the gaming industry....
...Within days, sponsors, broadcasters and the Chinese Basketball Association had suspended ties with the Rockets....
...Tilman Fertitta, the billionaire owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team, has approached Caesars Entertainment about a possible combination of his Golden Nugget Casinos chain with the Las Vegas owner...
...There are excited oohs as though a hellacious twister were part of Amtrak’s billed entertainment, but we are spared....
...Hawks for roughly $730m....
...But given that his bride Hope Dworaczyk was a former Playboy Playmate of the Year and the entertainment was provided by John Legend and Seal, photos of the ceremony made the tabloids anyway....
...However, the in-flight entertainment system provider has been a highly profitable business and a potential slowdown at the US unit would be damaging for the Japanese group....
...WME-IMG and AGT took their first steps into sport last month at the Euroleague basketball finals in Berlin....
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