{"id":20586,"date":"2013-04-11T14:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20586"},"modified":"2013-04-11T14:17:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:17:31","slug":"jay-z-to-drop-nets-ownership-stake-become-player-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20586","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z To Drop  Nets Ownership Stake, Become Player\u00a0Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After helping the Nets relocate from New Jersey to his hometown of Brooklyn, rapper and entrepreneur <strong>Shawn Carter<\/strong> \u2014 better known as <strong>Jay-Z <\/strong>\u2014 will reportedly drop his stake in the franchise so that he can pursue a future representing NBA players as an agent.<\/p>\n<p>A source reports that <strong>Carter\u2019s<\/strong> Roc Nation Sports business will partner with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) on the new venture, which can\u2019t be undertaken as long as he is affiliated with an NBA franchise in an ownership role, per league rules.<\/p>\n<p>The process is expected to be completed in time for Roc Nation to compete for players entering the June NBA draft, but there\u2019s no guarantee of the timing, sources said. Those within Roc Nation and the CAA alliance aren\u2019t \u201cchasing a clock on this,\u201d one source said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about one draft, but taking the long view of the business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After helping the Nets relocate from New Jersey to his hometown of Brooklyn, rapper and entrepreneur Shawn Carter \u2014 better known as Jay-Z \u2014 will reportedly drop his stake in the franchise so that he can pursue a future representing NBA players as an agent. A source reports that Carter\u2019s Roc Nation Sports business will [&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-20586","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\/20586","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=20586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}