Age: 81
Origin: Born in Philadelphia, lived in Washington since age 8
Net worth: $180 million
Ownership: $1.1 million for the team in 1964
Sporting experience: tennis enthusiast
Other professional sports stakes in name: WNBA's Washington Mystics, MCI Arena and online ticketing system for Washington and Baltimore.
How he made his money: worked in his family's construction business after graduating in 1945, started his own construction company in 1957 and built several large apartment and office buildings, one of which was the first with a rooftop swimming pool in Washington, D.C. He bought the Baltimore Bullets for $1.1 million in 1964, the most ever for a team at that time. Influenced by his father, Abu was passionate about philanthropy. His father, who came to the United States from Russia without speaking a word of English, was a hard-working and helpful man who taught Abu that the more you give, the more you get. Abu started his own anti-violence movement when he renamed the Washington Bullets the Wizards after his friend died from a bullet.
EDUCATION: B.A., George Washington
EYEWITNESS: He has been a team owner for 41 years, the most tenure in the league!
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Minnesota Timberwolves Owner: Glen Taylor
Age: 63
Net Worth: $1.8 billion
Ownership: 89 million dollars in 1995. $89 million in royalties to acquire a new NBA franchise
Other professional team stakes in his name: Owns the WNBA team, the Minnesota Bobcats
How he made his fortune: His Taylor Corporation is a leader in the U.S. in the production of specialty printers, glassware and plastic products.
Also offers direct mail services and craftsmanship.
Education:B.A., Mankato State University; MBA, Harvard
Escapades:Minnesota City Senator, 1980-1990
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Portland Trail Blazers
Owner:Paul Allen
Age: 52
Origin: Seattle
Net Worth: $20 billion
Ownership: $70 million buyout in 1988
Athletic Background: Loves to shoot hoops
Other Professional Teams Owned: Owns the Seattle Seahawks (hockey)
Way of Making Money. >
Birthright:Founded Microsoft with Bill Gates.
He also owns Falcon Limited in Seattle, which develops new mobile devices and manages projects, and Charter Communications in St. Louis.
Educational background:Dropped out of Washington State University after two years to start Microsoft
Escapades:Owns a full first-class set of tickets to the Star Trek movie collection.
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Utah Jazz
Owner:Larry Miller
Age: 60
Origin:Salt Lake City
Net worth:$480 million
Ownership: $24 million buyout in 1985
Other professional team stakes in his name: Used to own the Golden Hawks, Salt Lake City's lower league hockey team.
Owned the WNBA team Utah Utes until they transferred ownership to San Antonio.
Business:
Started as an auto parts dealer and now owns 35 car dealerships in six states, the largest in the nation, as well as Salt Lake City's KJZZ-TV, a movie theater, and a sporting goods store.
Athletic background: Rally car racer from 1963 to 1970, softball pitcher from 1962 to 1985, member of the National Softball League Hall of Fame, played for the Salt Lake City Underground League and Denver Underground League.
Educational Background:High School
Interesting Facts:Superb memory, can readily tell you the part number of a '74 Toyota and how many small bulbs were used in the Christmas tree in front of the Delta Center; won sculpture championships as a student; has been in love with his wife since junior high school; enjoys collecting poems, prose, and famous quotes.
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Denver Nuggets
Owner: E. Stanley Kroenke
Age: 57
Origin: Columbia City
Net worth: $1.4 Billion dollars
Ownership: $220 million to buy the team in 2000
Other professional stakes in his name: Owns the Pepsi Center Arena in Denver, the Colorado Avalanche (hockey) and is one of the owners of the St. Louis Rams.
He also owns the Colorado Crush of the Arena Football League, the Colorado Mammoths of the National Lacrosse League, the Colorado Rapid of Major League Soccer, plus he has an equity stake in the International Grand Prix of Automobiles in Denver.
Lifestyle: developer of shopping centers, often opening them near Wal-Marts. His wife, Ann, is the daughter of Bud Walton, who, along with his brother Sam, was the creator of Wal-Mart.
Athletic experience:Played on the basketball team in high school and played intramurals in college
Education:B.S. and MBA from the University of Missouri
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Seattle Supersonics
Owner:Howard Schultz
Age: 51 Nationality:New York
Net Worth: $700 million
Ownership: $200 million in 2001 to buy out the other professional teams under his name
No Birthright: Since taking over Starbucks in 1987, he's grown the small Seattle-based company into a national chain of more than 4,000 stores. .
He was also the head of eBay from 1998 to 2003.
Education:Bachelor's degree from Northern Michigan University
Athletic background:Played quarterback for the Northern Michigan University football team until a jaw injury
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Dallas Mavericks
Owner: Mark Cuban
Age: 46
Origin: Born in Pittsburgh, moved to Dallas as an adult
Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Ownership: bought the team in 2000 for $280 million
Athletic Experience: played four years of football at Indiana University, and has been playing in the Club play
How he got there: Founded MicroSolutions, a computer information company, in 1983 and sold it exclusively to the nation's largest online service company at the height of the dot-com boom.
Founded Broadcasting Networks in 1995, which became a major operator in the multimedia industry and was sold to Yahoo in 1999 for $5.7 billion
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S., Indiana University
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San Antonio Spurs
Owner: Peter Holt (Chairman and CEO)
Age: 53
Origin: Peoria
Net Worth: $80 million
Ownership: $75 million in 1993 when he bought the team
Other Professional Teams Under His Name: Company owns the Spurs
The invention became the basis for the creation of the Caterpillar (caterpillar) company, the largest tracked tractor dealer in the United States.
Anecdote: He was in the Army for a year in the war against Vietnam and received a Silver Star, three Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.
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Memphis Grizzlies
Owner:Michael Haisley
Age: 67
Origin: Born in Alexandria, now lives in St. Charles
Net worth: $850 million
Ownership: $160 million in 2000 to buy the team Sports background: Golfing Money: Buying and selling companies repeatedly, with a couple of close calls or bankruptcies in the process
Education: B.A., Georgetown University
---------------------- Other professional teams: Owns the WNBA team Houston Comets, previously owned the soccer league's Houston Thunderbolts (aka the Texas Terror), and would love to be a minority owner of an NFL (National Football League) team.
Lifestyle: former Wall Street securities trader
Education:B.A. from New York University, law degree from Occidental State College
Escapades: Vegetarian, frequent donor to animal protection groups with his wife
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Huang Feng Owner: George Sheehan Age: 62 Nationality: Kannapolis, N.C., currently resides in New Orleans Ownership: $33 million for the team in 1988 Net Worth: $100 million How He Got His Start: Started with a chain of business colleges, then moved on to real estate, car dealerships, publishing, and roadside reporting.
Other professional teams: Owns Atlanta East Coast Hockey League team, once owned Class 3A baseball team, Charlotte Cavaliers Educational background: Did not go to college, has five honorary degrees Athletic background: Love of golf
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Golden State Warriors owner: Chris Cuban
Age: 54
Origin: Born in Salinas, California, now lives in San Francisco
Net worth: about $325 million
Ownership: $119 million in 1995
Path to fortune: 1977. Founded the former Sonic Communications, which grew into the nation's largest independent cable TV exporter.
His father was a cable TV pioneer.
Education:Arizona State University Athletic background: enjoys golf
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Phoenix Sun
Owner: Robert Savol (33% ownership, at-large shareholder)
Age: 43
Origin: Arizona Currently lives in San Diego
Net Worth: $400 million
Ownership: $400 million and $1 million buy-in in 2004
How the money was made: in real estate and banking.
His father, a prominent banker and hotelier, founded Arizona National Bank in 1984. After selling the bank by 1994, he went on to do several bank buy-sell mergers. He is now the chairman and CEO of Western Alliance Bank Group, and the founder of Southwest Value Partners (SVP), a real estate investment company
Education: Bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Arizona
Sports background: sports fan, 9 handicap in golf, likes to play tennis, volleyball, and has been a Sun fan since childhood. Suns fan.
Escapades: First date with his now-wife was to the NCAA tournament.
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Los Angeles Clippers owner: Donald Sterling
Age: 66
Origin: Born in Chicago, raised in Los Angeles
Net worth: $500 million
Ownership time: 10 years, 9 strokes in golf, loves tennis, volleyball, grew up a Suns fan. p>
Ownership: $13 million buy-in in 1981
Lifestyles:Famous attorney, invested in real estate
Education:Law degree from Southwestern Law School
Escapades:Owned former Hollywood actor Cary Grant's real estate in Beverly Hills
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Sacramento Kings
Owners: Joseph Maloof and Gavin Maloof
Ages: Joseph 49, Gavin 48
Origin: New Mexico, both now live in Sacramento's Arco Arena Nearby
Net Worth: $100 million for Joe, $100 million for Gavin
Ownership: $156 million buyout in 1998
How the money was made: The Maloof Family Enterprises is a diversified conglomerate of hotels, casinos, banking, restaurants, sports and entertainment, transportation, and is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In 1994, the Maloof family built the Fiesta Casino Hotel, a casino hotel in North Las Vegas, which later became one of the world's top 10 gambling meccas, and was sold in 2000 for $185 million, and the family invested another $285 million in the Palms Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, which is now the hottest mecca in Vegas. become the hottest mecca in Vegas. They are also the largest shareholder in Wells Fargo Bank, and have exclusive distribution rights for Coors beer in New Mexico. And Universal Records.
Other professional teams: WNBA Monarchs
Athletic background: Joe is a tennis fan and Gavin is a golfer
Anecdotes: The Maloof family owned the Houston Rockets from 1979 to 1982, and when the elder Maloof died in 1980, Gavin took over as Rockets president (at the age of 24, a record for NBA team presidents). Gavin took over as president of the Rockets after the death of Maloof Sr. in 1980 (at the age of 24, he was the youngest president of an NBA team) and led the Rockets to their first-ever Finals appearance in 1981, with Moses Malone, Kevin Murphy, and Elvin Hayes on the roster at the time. He sold the Rockets in 1982 due to family pressures
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Lakers Owner: Jerry Buss
Age: 71
Net Worth: $380 million
Other pro sports stakes: WNBA's Sparks, NHL's Kings, Great Western Forum Arena (former home of the Lakers) and WTT's L.A. Strings (tennis)
Ownership: $20 million in 1979
Lifestyles: Real estate, launched Prime Ticket Network, now Foxconn. Launched Prime Ticket Network, now Fox Sports West and Fox Sports West 2.
Invested in real estate, launched Prime Ticket Network cable TV, now Fox Sports West and Channel 2.
Education: B.S. from Wyoming, Ph.D. in Chemistry from Southern California at age 24
Athletics: High school football
Interesting Facts: Finalist in World Poker Tour Invitational
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Bucks Owner: Herb Kohl
Age: 69
Origin: Milwaukee Milwaukee
Net Worth: an estimated $279 million, with his financial holdings having been held in secret escrow during his tenure as a U.S. Senator
Timing of Ownership: Bought the team for $19 million in 1985
Sporting experience: one of the 11 original investors in the Milwaukee Brewers, one of the 11 original investors in the Milwaukee Brewers in the professional baseball league, a $25 million donor with the Kohl family to the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a former member of the University of Wisconsin soccer team.
Birthright: Was a key player in growing his family's retail business, Kohl's, into a national chain of department stores. Owns a chain of about 400 department stores.
EDUCATION: B.A., Wisconsin; MBA, Harvard
EYEWORKS: Has been a U.S. senator representing Wisconsin since 1988. Was roommate of MLB president Bud Selig at Wisconsin.
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Knight
Owner: Dan Gilbert
Age: 42
Origin: Southfield, Michigan
Net worth: $478 $478 million
Ownership: $375 million to buy the team in 2005
Sports experience: Made the baseball team as a freshman at Southfield's Lathrop High School, but was passed over
Other professional sports stakes: Failed bid to buy the Milwaukee Brewers, a MLB team
How he got his money: Chairman and founder of Quicken Loans, a company that in 2004 became the largest owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, and the largest owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, the Milwaukee Brewers. Founder of Quicken Loans, which closed $12 billion in residential mortgages in 2004.
Started by founding Granite Insurance Brokers Inc. in 1985.
Education: B.A., Michigan State University; law degree, Wayne State University
Escapades: Weightlifting enthusiast, 5'5" (about 1.65 meters), most recently lifted 310 pounds (140 kilograms) Singer Arthur Kid is one of the Cavaliers' owners
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Pistons? Owner: William Davidson
Age: 81
Origin: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Net worth: $2.8 billion
Ownership: bought the team for $8 million in 1974
Athletic experience: track and field athlete at the University of Michigan (running races), and played soccer in the Navy in World War II.
How he made his fortune: His Guardian Industries is a major supplier of glass to the automotive industry and the world's largest producer of mirrors. It is now headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
Other professional sports stakes in his name: The Detroit Shock of the WNBA, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the NHL's championship team, and he is the majority owner of Palace Sports and Entertainment, which owns the Palace of Auburn Hills Arena and the Detroit Vipers field hockey team.
Educational background: bachelor's degree from Michigan, law degree from Wayne State
Escapades: fired Pistons head coach Dick Vitale in 1979, one of the 10 worst NBA coaches of all time.
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Indiana Pacers Owner: Herb and Melvin Simon Age: Herb is 69, Melvin 77 Origin: Both were born in Brooklyn, N.Y., grew up in the Bronx, N.Y., and now live in Indianapolis, Indiana Net Worth: Herb $1.2 billion, Mel $1.6 billion $1.6 billion. Ownership: Bought the team for $11 million in 1983
Sporting Experience: Melvin is a keen golfer
How did they make their money: Co-chairman of the Simon Property Group, which owns or has a stake in more than 240 shopping malls and is the largest owner of shopping malls in the United States. It is the largest owner of shopping malls in the United States.
Education: Both have bachelor's degrees from New York University
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Miami Heat owner: Micky Arison
Age: 55
Nationality: Miami
Net worth: $5.3 billion
Ownership: Took over from his father in 1995
Other professional sports stakes in his name: Used to own the WNBA's Miami Sol
Educational background: Attended the University of Miami
How he made his fortune: Took over Carnival Cruise Lines from his father, Ted, and turned it into the world's the world's leading shipping company.
He also took over the Heat from his father in 1995, and in 1990 Allison inherited 60 percent of the Miami Heat from his father
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MAGIC OWNER: Chet Davos
Age: 5 years. /p>
Age: 78
Origin: ADA Michigan, also lives in Manalapan Township, Florida, in Palm Beach County.
Net worth: $3 billion
Ownership: bought the team for $85 million in 1991
Other professional sports stakes in his name: has owned the now-defunct International Hockey League (IHL) team Orlando Solar Bears and the WNBA Orlando Miracle (now Connecticut Sun).
Lifestyle: One of the founders of Amway, who started it in 1959 with Jay Van Andel and later grew the company (now a subsidiary of Andagog) into a direct selling empire.
EDUCATION: Attended Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan
HISTORY: Author of three books, including the acclaimed The World's Greatest Salesman
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Owner: Steve Belkin, with 30% ownership, is the largest individual owner of Atlanta Spirit LLC.
Age: 57
Origin: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Net worth: $300 million
Ownership: $350 million to buy the team in 2003 (including another NHL team)
Education: B.A., Cornell; M.B.A., Harvard
Other pro-sports stakes in name: Atlanta Spirit bought stakes in the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers and Phillips Arena from America Online/Time Warner.
Was unsuccessfully working with Larry Bird to start a new team in Charlotte
EYEWITNESS: He passed up the chance to play basketball for Georgia Tech to study engineering at Cornell.
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Net Owner: Bruiser Ratner
Age: 59
Origin: Cleveland
Net Worth: $400 million
Ownership: Bought the team for $300 million in 2004
Other sports stakes in name: None
Birthright: Real estate developer, CEO and founder of Frost City Ratner. Most recent project is the Metro Technology Center in Brooklyn.
Education: B.A. from Harvard, law degree from Columbia
Athletic experience: played American soccer in high school.
Escapades: sister Ellen Ratner is a political columnist and commentator. hip-hop singer Jay-Z (Beyoncé's boyfriend) is one of the Nets' minority owners
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Nichols. Owner: Cablevision Corporation
Ownership: $30 million for the team in 1997
Cablevision, with a market capitalization of $8 billion, owns 100 percent of Madison Square Garden and its related real estate, as well as the New York Knicks basketball team, the Rangers ice hockey team, the "Lady Liberty " women's basketball team, the New York Radio Music Hall, the MSG Television Network cable channels, and all of the New York and Chicago area sports television networks.
Cablevision's chairman, James Dowland, and his son, CEO Charis Dowland
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toronto raptors Owner: Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Inc. , shares are 58% owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, 15% by Bell Canada Telecom's multimedia subsidiary, 14% by TD Hondo Investment Corporation Inc. and 13% by real estate magnate Larry Tannebaum.
Ownership: $12.5 million in 1998 for other pro sports stakes in the team's name: NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
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Philadelphia 76ers
Owner: Ed -Snead, chairman of Comcast Spectacor Corporation
Age: 71
Origin: Philadelphia Net Worth: $310 million
Ownership: $12.5 million to buy the team in 1996
Athletic Experience: Tennis enthusiast
Birthday: Founded Spectacor Corporation to own the Philadelphia Flyers and the Spectacor team. 20 years Spectacor expansion achieved a lot of business, in 1996 and Comcast merger, engaged in the development of wide-channel cable television network, management and operation, and provide television program content.
Other professional sports holdings: Comcast Spectacor's holdings consist primarily of the Philadelphia Flyers (hockey), the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team, and two major multi-purpose arenas in Philadelphia, where the Philadelphia Flyers, who founded the NHL in 1966, are located. Comcast Spectacor also owns the Philadelphia Phantoms, the Flyers' AHL affiliate, and the three Baltimore Orioles. Comcast Spectacor also owns the Philadelphia Phantoms, the AHL affiliate of the Flyers, and has a minority stake in three Baltimore Orioles minor league baseball teams.
Educational background: B.S. in Business, Maryland
EYEWITNESS: He initially worked for a Philadelphia record label, Edge Ltd. Work.
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Boston Celtics
Owner: Vic Groesbeck, CEO of Boston Basketball Co-op and shareholder at large
Age: 42
Origin: Worcester, Massachusetts
Net worth: $360 million
Ownership: $12 million for the team in 1986
Other pro sports stakes in his name: Tried to buy the Boston Red Sox with his father, Elf
How he made his money: one of six unlimited partners in Highland Investment Partners, a world-renowned venture capital firm with $1.8 billion in venture capital. Highland Investment Partners, a world-renowned venture capital firm with $1.8 billion in venture capital, manages the finances of prestigious U.S. universities such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
Previously, he founded Medwise, a nationally recognized pharmaceutical company and information technology company.
Education: B.A. in history from Princeton University, law degree from the University of Michigan, M.B.A. from Stanford University
Athletic experience: former lightweight rower at Princeton University.
Hobbies: Played drums in a Princeton bar in a band called the Daytonas.