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Mark Davis excited to own Las Vegas Aces
Mark Davis is all in on the Las Vegas Aces.
The Raiders owner was formally authorized to purchase the franchise by the WNBA Board of Governors recently and has grand prepare for the Aces.
He will open a training center for the group next year that will have 2 courts, locker spaces and training centers. The center will be next to the Raiders head office and likewise will house the Al Davis-Eddie Robinson Management Academy – a program to establish minority training and basic supervisor prospects in the NFL,
“One thing I noticed was that what they didn’t have was a real home,” Davis stated about the Aces throughout a media schedule Wednesday. “They were practicing at UNLV, had offices at MGM and offices down in an airplane hanger.”
The brand-new owner confesses that acquiring a WNBA group may not be the very best organization choice as franchises tend not to be cash makers. Nevertheless, the Aces season-ticket holder stated he constantly had a love for ladies’s basketball gave from daddy Al, a big fan of Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies.
“Women’s sports deserve so much more recognition,” stated Davis, who was very first approached by MGM to purchase the group from the gambling establishment prior to the pandemic hit.
He sees an intense future for the group and the WNBA as a whole. He stated he has some concepts he desires to bring to the league and its owners, however didn’t desire to state on them yet up until he’s talked to them initially.
Davis compared the league to the Football League that his daddy was a huge part of.
“That league was fighting for its survival. Two things they got were a TV contact which was important for their stability,” he stated. “When they signed Joe Namath to that $400,000 contract that bumped the league into everyone’s imagination.”
“We plan to win the championship this year,” Davis said. “I want to learn about women’s basketball, learn how they structure the rosters and all that.”
Unlike his father who served as his own general manager and made nearly every significant personnel decision for the Raiders before he died, Davis plans to let basketball minds Bill Laimbeer and Dan Padover run the show,
“I’d be crazy to get in the way, it’s their baby,” he said.
Davis has deferred to the GM and coach of the Raiders during his time running the team.
Davis said the team will continue to play at Mandalay Bay this season and then will see after that where the franchise will play its home games.
“I’d like to compliment MGM for what they’ve done,” he said. “They put $10 million into Mandalay Events center. It’s a great facility. we are obligated for one year to play there. Then we have a couple of year options. We are looking to do what’s best for the organization.”
Davis said that he’s learned the venue a team plays in is very important to the local economy.
“MGM owns most of those fixed assets, naming rights,” he said. “We’re going to need those kinds of revenue streams to build the coffers of the Aces. Whether that happens through negotiations or whether we build a place for the Aces, those are decisions we’ll make in the near future.”
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Mark Davis is all in on the Las Vegas Aces.
The Raiders owner was formally authorized to purchase the franchise by the WNBA Board of Governors recently and has grand prepare for the Aces.
He will open a training center for the group next year that will have 2 courts, locker spaces and training centers. The center will be next to the Raiders head office and likewise will house the Al Davis-Eddie Robinson Management Academy – a program to establish minority training and basic supervisor prospects in the NFL,
“One thing I noticed was that what they didn’t have was a real home,” Davis stated about the Aces throughout a media schedule Wednesday. “They were practicing at UNLV, had offices at MGM and offices down in an airplane hanger.”
The brand-new owner confesses that acquiring a WNBA group may not be the very best organization choice as franchises tend not to be cash makers. Nevertheless, the Aces season-ticket holder stated he constantly had a love for ladies’s basketball gave from daddy Al, a big fan of Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies.
“Women’s sports deserve so much more recognition,” stated Davis, who was very first approached by MGM to purchase the group from the gambling establishment prior to the pandemic hit.
He sees an intense future for the group and the WNBA as a whole. He stated he has some concepts he desires to bring to the league and its owners, however didn’t desire to state on them yet up until he’s talked to them initially.
Davis compared the league to the Football League that his daddy was a huge part of.
“That league was fighting for its survival. Two things they got were a TV contact which was important for their stability,” he stated. “When they signed Joe Namath to that $400,000 contract that bumped the league into everyone’s imagination.”
“We plan to win the championship this year,” Davis said. “I want to learn about women’s basketball, learn how they structure the rosters and all that.”
Unlike his father who served as his own general manager and made nearly every significant personnel decision for the Raiders before he died, Davis plans to let basketball minds Bill Laimbeer and Dan Padover run the show,
“I’d be crazy to get in the way, it’s their baby,” he said.
Davis has deferred to the GM and coach of the Raiders during his time running the team.
Davis said the team will continue to play at Mandalay Bay this season and then will see after that where the franchise will play its home games.
“I’d like to compliment MGM for what they’ve done,” he said. “They put $10 million into Mandalay Events center. It’s a great facility. we are obligated for one year to play there. Then we have a couple of year options. We are looking to do what’s best for the organization.”
Davis said that he’s learned the venue a team plays in is very important to the local economy.
“MGM owns most of those fixed assets, naming rights,” he said. “We’re going to need those kinds of revenue streams to build the coffers of the Aces. Whether that happens through negotiations or whether we build a place for the Aces, those are decisions we’ll make in the near future.”
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Follow Doug Feinberg on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dougfeinberg
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