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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNBA superstar LeBron James and his longtime business partner Maverick Carter will be part-owners of the Boston Red Sox, a person familiar with the details told USA TODAY Sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The person requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly until the deal is official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James and Carter became partners in Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Red Sox, Liverpool FC of the English Premier League, Roush Fenway Racing, regional sports network NESN, Fenway Sports Management and FSG Real Estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Red Sox portion of the deal is subject to Major League Baseball approval. John Henry is the principal owner and Thomas Werner the chairman of Fenway Sports Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to this investment, James owned a small share of Liverpool FC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James, who has worn a New York Yankees hat before, and Carter will be FSG\u2019s first Black partners, The Boston Globe\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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La superestrella de la NBA LeBron James y su socio comercial desde hace mucho tiempo Maverick Carter ser\u00e1n copropietarios de los Boston Red Sox, dijo una persona familiarizada con los detalles a USA TODAY Sports. La persona solicit\u00f3 el anonimato porque no estaba autorizado a hablar en p\u00fablico hasta que el trato sea oficial. James […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105517,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105514\/revisions\/105517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportseco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}