{"id":577842,"date":"2026-04-02T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577842\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:59:11","slug":"wnba-growth-draws-investor-buzz-but-mark-davis-keeps-las-vegas-aces-circle-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577842\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA growth draws investor buzz, but Mark Davis keeps Las Vegas Aces\u2019 circle tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Aces owner Mark Davis said that investors are \u201ceager to get involved\u201d with the WNBA team in light of the \u201cexponential\u201d growth of women\u2019s sports, according to Callie Fin of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL. Davis said, \u201cI get hit with it all the time.\u201d He added that he \u201cnever puts that much consideration into the idea of adding new stakeholders.\u201d Davis: \u201cIt was never about the money for me in this. It was more about bringing in the right people.\u201d He said that he \u201cused that philosophy when he brought in\u201d former NFLer Tom Brady as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/04\/10\/Opinion\/springer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/04\/10\/Opinion\/springer\/\">minority owner of the Aces<\/a>. He also \u201cmentioned Larry Delsen, a long time friend and financial advisor and his family.\u201d Davis added that there is \u201csomebody else that will probably be a part\u201d of the Aces ownership group in the future, but \u201cnot soon.\u201d Davis: \u201cIt\u2019s not something that we\u2019re out there marketing. Many people have come to us. We\u2019ve talked to them to see if they could fit into what our overall vision is. But right now, no\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/aces\/mark-davis-mum-in-interest-in-nba-expansion-but-sees-allure-of-las-vegas-for-league-3732387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 4\/1<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aces owner Mark Davis said that investors are \u201ceager to get involved\u201d with the WNBA team in light&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,82,630,4143],"class_list":{"0":"post-577842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba","13":"tag-womens-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}