JAy-Z has released a statement on his selling of his Brooklyn Nets ownership shares. On his website he writes that he's proud to have been able to work with such a great team and wishes the Nets luck in the NBA playoffs.
Tech investor and social media pioneer Alexis Ohanian told Bloomberg News Tuesday that he's "absolutely" interested in buying jay-Z's shares, equal to 0.067 percent of the team and a somewhat larger percentage of the Barclays Center holding company.
The head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, the players union, said Wednesday that the Nets minority stakeholder may have to sell his interest in the team to be an agent for MLB players, not just NBA players.
Jay-Z, who joined Bruce Ratner in the original group of investors that bought the Nets a decade ago and became their iconic presence, is exchanging his role as owner for NBA agent. Adrian Wojnarowski reports Jay-Z is selling his stake in the team
If Jay-Z starts to rep NBA players in his new agency, he would have to leave the Nets ownership group. The big issue wouldn't be money, but losing their link to a "cultural icon," as the Nets refer to him ... reportedly by contract.
The rapper formerly known as Mos Def -- and currently known as Yasiin Bey -- slammed Jay-Z and the Barclays Center in a recent poem.
In multiple images posted to her Instagram account, Beyonce' is shown wearing a Brooklyn Nets t-shirt while rehearsing for the Super Bowl half time show. The wife of Nets minority owner and Barclays Center director has done it before.
The Post took a look at what that's like inside "The Vault" at a typical Nets game. On hand were some lucky fans, Rosie Perez, the Brooklyn native who starred in Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing," and Darrelle Revis, the Jets injured CB.
Whenever a Madison Square Garden official is asked about the Nets and Barclays Center, the response is that they respect the competition but that "the Garden will always be the Garden." No doubt but its now a "battle of equals," say experts.
Jamie Foxx was all about the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday Night Live. He opened his monologue talking about the Nets and the new popularity of black, wore a Hello Brooklyn t-shirt in a bumper shot and
