Luol Deng: Basketball's $125 Million Real Estate Magnate
The Heartbeat of a Nation and How Hockey Helped Shape It
NCAA coaches charged with fraud and corruption
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Online Poker Is on the Rise Around the World
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Luol Deng: Basketball's $125 Million Real Estate Magnate
It’s true that the South Sudanese NBA player Luol Deng has earned 151,000,000 million throughout his fourteen year NBA career. But Deng, twice an NBA All-Star, has developed a complex real estate portfolio under his company D3N9 as originally reported by Kurt Badenhausen. The hotels, resorts, condos and apartment buildings are worth an estimated $125 million and he’s still playing professional basketball at the highest level with this Luol Deng contract. Like much of business it is about who you know. Deng has shown to be savvy in that regard making relationship’s with America’s top real estate investors and business tycoons.
The Heartbeat of a Nation and How Hockey Helped Shape It
Canada founded in 1867 and is now into its 151st year and a nation. Jump forward only 50 years from that point and it’s now 1917 and the National Hockey League forms, now in its 100th year. A 50-year gap, a dot on the timeline of civilization, in which Canada and its provinces grew, developed and seemingly form an incredible passion for the sport. This has always and forever will be a long shared heartbeat. The big question on every sports fan’s mind is whether we can have the NHL running at the same time as the coronavirus. You should
How Much Do NBA Players Make in the Playoffs?
The NBA is one of the most lucrative businesses in the world. Professional basketball players earn an extraordinary amount of money. The minimum salary for rookies is worth $893,310 a year, according to sportscasting.com. This already seems like a considerable amount for most of us, but it gets even more mind-blowing when looking at the salaries of the NBA’s premier stars. Superstar players earn hundreds of millions of dollars from their playing contracts alone. CNBC currently has Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors as the highest annually paid player in the league. Curry gets paid an average of $40.2
Bitcoin Casinos and Blockchain: Adding Trust to Online Gambling
The introduction of casinos added class to gambling. Gambling went from the streets to five-star lounges with the finest linen carpets, shiniest of chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, and multi-millionaires and billionaires, with glamorous chicks sitting on their laps, placing bets of hundreds of thousands of dollars at once. And then there are also online counterparts of casinos that cater to people from all around the world in a digital space. As fancy as it may all sound, it’s common to find people doubting the trustworthiness of casino games. It’s majorly because of two reasons. The first being the house
The Shining Stars of the NHL
Over the years the NHL has thrown us all some seriously fine sporting moments. From buzzer beating goals, to special shootouts and, of course, unbelievable Stanley Cup wins. From Atlantic to Pacific, Metropolitan to Central this league isn’t amongst the ‘big four’ American leagues and top 5 wealthiest sporting leagues in the world for no reason. It all wouldn’t be possible without the skills and talent of the players in the league. And special moments are often reserved for the very best of players. We are going to take a look at the guys who have made some of the
The Gaming World is Shifting to the Digital Realm
The internet and the world wide web look like it came into existence just a few years ago. Indeed, if we were to look at the world from a larger picture, the internet and the worldwide web are relatively new. For instance, it has only been around since the mid-1980s and continued to accelerate over the 1990s. The internet and the digitization of everything via software and bits take place on a more extensive and minute scale each day. From companies that range from Google to Facebook and larger ecosystem providers such as Apple seem to empower more developers to
Progressive Betting and Professional Sports
Previously, we had talked on The Sports Economist about how to improve your chances when betting on professional sports, specifically on football. Now, we want to dedicate an article to a specific technique that betters swear by for improving their chances, called progressive betting. Progressive betting is used a lot in casinos and with table games such as roulette or blackjack, but the statistics and theory behind it can apply equally well to sports betting, or indeed, any other game of chance. People don’t use progressive betting techniques in sports so much yet, but our friends at HelpBet think that
The Roaring Success Story of the UFC
We all know about Conor Mcgregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Anderson Silva, Dan Henderson, Rory MacDonald, and others fighting stars. What do they all have in common? We know that many of them have different backgrounds and stories. Of course, we also see that they have their own unique styles and personalities that differentiate them and tie them together. But a primary shared characteristic is that they are fighters and have all appeared at least once in a UFC fighting match that was of significant importance to an enthusiastic audience. They made their names in the ring by showing consistency, dedication, effort,
NFL Fantasy Rankings For 2020
As their name implies, daily fantasy sports (DFS) are a range of fantasy sports wherein contests or matches happen in days or hours than entire seasons. Some examples of DFS include basketball, baseball, and American football. In particular, DFS players can also bet on fantasy NFL games. But, like other DFS games, you need to know the best player and team rankings to increase your chances of winning bets. Getting Started In NFL DFS Perhaps, you’re a beginner in DFS football, and you’re looking to learn the ropes about betting on fantasy matches. Conversely, you’re a DFS veteran looking for
Interest In The NFL Will Skyrocket This Season
Professional football will benefit from the increasing number of states that have legalized sports betting By Alexander Chan Sports betting is now legal in some capacity in 22 states and Washington, DC. Some states permit mobile betting while some states require that any sports wagering occur at authorized casinos. The NFL experienced a ratings rebound last season after declining in previous seasons. The increasing number of states that have adopted legalized sports betting will only accelerate the NFL’s ratings resurgence. Sports bettors have not been able to wager on any American team sports in the last four months. Bettors will
Potential Loss of Revenue without NCAA Football
As 2020 drags on, the uncertainty in just about everything seems to increase. The world of professional and college sports is definitely not an exception to this. In fact, it seems we are more and more confused about what to do about it as time drags on and people argue about what is the best course of action. As far as the sports world is concerned, in many ways it’s even worse, because we have been frequently making plans, just to wind up dumping them. And in the meantime, there are zero sports being played in many cases. This is
NCAA coaches charged with fraud and corruption
Hmm, am I shocked? No, not really. However, I am a little shocked that it was the Feds that caught them. Student-athletes are worth a lot of money to the schools and the brands that sponsor the schools. As such, we expect there to be a strong incentive for places to find ways to convince these student-athletes to go to their school (or brand). And schools have always done this through relatively inefficient means: nicer locker rooms, weight rooms, and other facilities; hiring personal chefs and personal trainers; and even paying professional coaches to leave the big leagues and come