{"id":17309,"date":"2012-10-08T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17309"},"modified":"2012-10-08T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T20:06:23","slug":"penny-hardaway-agrees-to-join-group-of-minority-owners-for-nbas-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17309","title":{"rendered":"Penny Hardaway Agrees To Join Group Of Minority Owners For NBA\u2019s\u00a0Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn.\u2014 NFL quarterback <strong>Peyton Manning<\/strong> and his wife, <strong>Ashley<\/strong>, and former NBA player\u00a0<strong>Penny\u00a0Hardaway<\/strong>\u00a0have agreed to join the group of minority owners for the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Mannings<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Hardaway<\/strong>\u00a0join a minority group that includes singer and actor <strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong> and a couple Memphis businessmen.<\/p>\n<p>Pera, owner of a California tech company, agreed to buy the Grizzlies from <strong>Michael Heisley<\/strong> in June for $350 million. The NBA is expected to approve the sale this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timberlake<\/strong> was born in Memphis.\u00a0<strong>Hardaway<\/strong>\u00a0is a Memphis native who played collegiately at then-Memphis State. <strong>Ashley Manning<\/strong> once lived in Memphis and married <strong>Peyton<\/strong> there on St. Patrick\u2019s Day in 2001. <strong>Peyton Manning<\/strong> played at the University of Tennessee across the state in Knoxville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn.\u2014 NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and his wife, Ashley, and former NBA player\u00a0Penny\u00a0Hardaway\u00a0have agreed to join the group of minority owners for the Memphis Grizzlies. The Mannings and\u00a0Hardaway\u00a0join a minority group that includes singer and actor Justin Timberlake and a couple Memphis businessmen. Pera, owner of a California tech company, agreed to buy the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}