{"id":311136,"date":"2026-07-31T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311136\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:40:44","slug":"nets-liberty-owners-clara-wu-and-joe-tsai-divorcing-no-changes-for-brooklyn-sports-entertainment-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311136\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets, Liberty owners Clara Wu and Joe Tsai divorcing; no changes for Brooklyn Sports Entertainment planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The owners of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/28\/50-minutes-with-liberty-owner-clara-wu-tsai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/28\/50-minutes-with-liberty-owner-clara-wu-tsai\/\">Clara Wu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/30\/tsai-ares-lead-100m-series-e-for-premier-lacrosse-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/30\/tsai-ares-lead-100m-series-e-for-premier-lacrosse-league\/\">Joe Tsai<\/a>, are \u201cending their nearly 30-year marriage.\u201d In a statement to PAGE SIX, a spokesperson for the couple said the divorce was \u201camicable\u201d and that it will not \u201caffect the business operations of Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment\u201d nor their teams, with Joe remaining as chairman and Clara as vice chair of the company and both retaining their governor roles (Joe with the Nets, Clara with the Liberty). Over time, they plan to \u201cinvolve their children,\u201d who are all adults, in running their sports holdings. The statement also noted there would be no changes with Joe\u2019s tech firm, Alibaba, and that there are \u201cno plans to sell shares\u201d and that his role as chairman \u201cwill not be affected\u201d by their divorce (<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/31\/celebrity-news\/brooklyn-nets-new-york-liberty-owners-clara-wu-tsai-and-joseph-tsai-divorcing-after-nearly-30-years-of-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/31\/celebrity-news\/brooklyn-nets-new-york-liberty-owners-clara-wu-tsai-and-joseph-tsai-divorcing-after-nearly-30-years-of-marriage\/\">PAGE SIX<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty, Clara Wu and Joe Tsai, are \u201cending their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[117675,98,100,99,4475,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-311136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-alibaba","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-nets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}