Carmelo Anthony is open to team ownership with his longtime friends LeBron James And Dwyane Wade.
Anthony is already inching closer to obtaining ownership in the National Basketball League (NBL) after being named a Global Ambassador of its innovative Next Stars program, a news release mentions. With his appointment, it also means he can one day be part of an ownership team when the league expands.
Speaking of his appointment, Anthony said, “The recent pipeline of talent that has come out of the NBL and into the NBA has been extremely impressive, and the Next Stars program is a prime example of the league’s commitment to nurturing talent and cultivating elite players. I look forward to working with the League to help play a role in shaping the future of basketball worldwide.”
Anthony’s interest in team ownership, to no surprise, also includes the NBA. The 10-time All Star was drafted in 2003 to the Denver Nuggets as third overall draft pick, the NBA notes. He went on to spend significant years with the New York Knicks then played for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, and Portland Trail Blazers, before retiring with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Beyond the league, Anthony found a new way to be impactful in sports launching Isos7 Sports Investments. As AFROTECH™ previously told you, the sports fund, established in partnership with Isos Capital Management founders Michelle Wilson and George Barrios, intends to pump $750 million into “sports leagues, teams, emerging properties, and ancillary businesses in North America, Europe, and pan-Asia.”
In the quest for team ownership, Anthony mentioned the NBA is an area of interest.
“Ownership is always the ticket,” he mentioned to Andscape. “How can I become an owner in the sport that I’ve been playing for a long time, but also it’s not so much the ownership it’s also the access. It’s also the relationships. It’s also being able to globalize the game of basketball in a way that we haven’t seen yet.”

Recently, Anthony also admitted he would be interested in securing a sports franchise alongside LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, who were also drafted to the league in 2003.
“I would love it. That’s how you create what they talk about, generational. That’s legacy if we can do that… I don’t know how. I’m open,” he explained on his podcast with The Kid Mero, “7PM in Brooklyn.” “I don’t know how open they are. Everybody got their own situation, you get what I’m saying. I’m out there trying to raise money now. Trying to raise money with my sports fund, and I done traveled the world, Japan and this place and that place to go fundraise.”
He continued, “It’s hard to raise money. Most people like ‘You got the money.’ No, it’s hard to raise money and getting people to understand what sports is, right. And there’s so much money being spent into sports, and people really don’t understand it, people really don’t understand sports.”

 

Anthony has been open about his ambition to become a team owner, and it’s just a matter of time before his dream becomes reality.