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In 2003, he acquired a minority stake in the Brooklyn Nets. His influence played a key role in the branding and cultural shift of the franchise, including the iconic black-and-white uniforms.
Rapper Jay-Z owned a small minority stake in the Nets from 2003 until 2013. Jay-Z was a leader in the marketing for the team and helped encourage their move from New Jersey to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, in which he also held a stake.
On April 18, 2013, Jay-Z officially announced through his Life + Times website in a press release that he would be relinquishing his ownership in the Brooklyn Nets. [178] The shares were eventually sold to singer, rapper, actor and entrepreneur Will Pan , making Pan the first American of Taiwanese descent to own a U.S. professional sports ...
The Brooklyn Nets primary logo from 2012 to 2024, designed by Timothy Morris.. The Brooklyn Nets, a professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, were founded in 1967 and initially played in Teaneck, New Jersey, as the New Jersey Americans, followed by a period spent in Long Island as the New York Nets and later returning to play as the New Jersey Nets.
Beyoncé and JAY-Z are sharing sweet moments of affection. The lovebirds stepped out for the Brooklyn Nets–Milwaukee Bucks game at the Barclays Center on Saturday night and they were ...
Jay-Z headlines his third annual Tidal x Brooklyn benefit concert, which raised money victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Beyoncé was in the audience, but she did not perform. Shareif Ziyadat ...
One of the first moves of Prokhorov's ownership of the Nets in 2010 was to purchase a large 225-by-99-foot (69 m × 30 m) painted billboard, featuring himself, then Nets part-owner Jay-Z and the words "Blueprint for Greatness" on the side of a building at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue facing Madison Square Garden, home of the Knicks. [18]
From Marcel Duchamp to punk rock, the art world has struggled to find ways to present rebellious forms of art in a museum-like context, and hip-hop is certainly no exception.