Kevin Durant: Interested In Commanders Ownership Group
Add Kevin Durant to the list of people interested in buying the Commanders. It was reported earlier in the week that Jay Z and Jeff Bezos were thought to be potential buyers. Durant’s potential interest comes as no surprise given that the Nets star forward is from the DMV area.
“In a perfect world, I would be a part of it,” Durant told ESPN. “I would love to do it. I would love to give a little bit of my money to be a part of the Commanders, but we’ll see. Hopefully it’s somebody nice. I heard [Amazon CEO Jeff] Bezos and Jay-Z, but you never know.”
“But that’s going to be a team that everybody — everybody wants to be a part of the league. It’s one of the most lucrative teams in sports, so I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of bidders.”
The odds of Durant getting in on the action seem really high even if it’s a low percentage. Durant is a huge fan of the team and he’s probably the most successful athlete in that area. Outside of RG3, can you even really name another former or athlete that they would want in the ownership group?
“Our market is incredible,” Durant said. “There’s a lot of support in D.C., a lot of money in D.C. to be made. I feel like we drafted well the last couple years. We got some foundation pieces that can help you win football games moving forward. So yeah, I think it’s an attractive destination. Regardless of what’s going on, they pretty much built that team up, built that stadium, built the brand up pretty nicely.
“I know we’ve had some losing seasons, but it’s starting to come around for us. I’m excited as a fan. I’m excited about the sale. I’m excited to see who they bring in and who they sell the team to and see how we move forward with it.”
“I would probably stay more of a fan than try to get involved with the team,” Durant said of being part of a Commanders ownership group. “And it would be something nice for my family, and just to have in our family, that would be incredible to be a part of that group. Just get a little closer to the team if I were to be able to be in that position. Try to learn the business, try to learn from an ownership’s perspective and a front-office perspective, coach’s perspective, try to get closer to players.”
“Of course,” he said with a smile when asked whether he’d like to be part of a potential ownership group. “I don’t have a lot of money, though. I don’t have that much money to say, ‘Look, man, let me get a piece of the team.’ So I’m sure it would have to work out some way, somehow. I would love to, obviously, but to be honest, I doubt that it’ll happen. It’s a five-, six-billion-dollar team.”
Just to finish things up here, I’m curious if they change the name again. Is that off the table? If I had infinite money and just bought the Commanders, I’m changing that name again. Sorry to people who bought the merch but we can definitely come up with a better name than Commanders. Food for thought.
