LeBron James says he wants to buy the WNBA team from Loeffler

NBA star LeBron James has suggested he is interested in buying the women’s professional basketball team, owned by Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.).

“Believe me, I’m gone, I’ve formed a property group for The Dream,” James wrote on Twitter late Tuesday. – Whose in?

Loeffler, one of the richest members of Congress, owns Atlanta Dream, which he bought with co-owner Mary Brock in 2011.

Loeffler lost a tough Senate race overnight to Democrat Raphael Warnock. Several Atlanta Dream players had criticized her for her policies and vocal support President TrumpDonald Trump Warnock defeats Loeffler in Georgia Senate Memo tour: Georgia voters strike Trump Eric Trump warns of primary challenges for Republicans who do not oppose election results.

In August, players wore “vote Warnock” T-shirts.

“When we realized what our landlord was doing and how the Black Lives Matter movement was using us for its political gain, we felt like we didn’t want to feel a bit lost like the pawns in it,” said Elizabeth Williams. he told The New York Times this summer.

James was an outspoken advocate of the Black Lives Matter movement, a push for social justice that Loeffler, like Trump, characterized as “Marxist” and anti-American.

“There is no room for racism in this country. We cannot have it,” Loeffler said in July. “But there is an organization, different from the saying, an organization called Black Lives Matter founded on Marxist principles. Marxism supports socialism.”

The Los Angeles Lakers star, valued at $ 480 million, criticized Trump and urged fans to vote for Republicans in Congress.

Loeffler lost one of the two Senate elections in his state on Tuesday. If Democrat Jon Ossoff defeats the Republican David PerdueDavid Perdue Memo: Voters in Georgia Blow Trump’s Victory Warnock puts Democrats within reach of Senate majority Warnock declares victory in Georgia’s second round of Senate, as race stays too close to call for MORE In the other race, Democrats will control the Senate until 2022.

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