Nashville SC principal owner John Ingram continued the team's early fourth-season momentum with an announcement Thursday two-time MVP and NBA champion Giannis Antetokounmpo has joined the team's ownership group, joined by his brothers and Nashville Predators (NHL) all-time leading scorer Filip Forsberg.
Star Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry along with actress Reese Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth were recent additions to the diverse Nashville SC ownership group before the Antetokounmpo brothers and Forsberg. For Giannis, it was a longstanding goal.
"My father was a professional soccer player, and it was the first sport I fell in love with in Greece," Antetokounmpo said in a"I've always had the dream of owning a soccer team. When my brothers and I explored Nashville SC, we knew it was a team and a city that we wanted to get involved with.
It's early in the MLS season, but Nashville SC currently holds the No. 3 spot in the league's Eastern Conference after a season-opening 2-0 victory over New York City FC last weekend. Next, the team will travel to face the New York Red Bulls on Saturday. Other elite NBA players in Phoenix Suns' Kevin Durant and Philadelphia 76ers' James Harden have also invested in MLS teams.
In January, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes joined his wife, Brittany, to became one of the only active NFL players to have an ownership stake in an NWSL team after the Kansas City Current
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