For those who aren't aware: Miriam Adelson is the new owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, having bought Mark Cuban's majority share in June of last year. However, she was unable to take the seat of 'govenor' (essentially the person who represents team leadership at league meetings and CBA negotiations between owners and players, which is usually just the owner of the team), mostly because of virulent hatred of Palestine, as she is very proud to be a member of the Triple Parentheses Gang, and openly wants the West Bank to be annexed. She is also one of, if not the largest donor to Trump, having donated over $100 million to his campaign for 2024. Her money comes from her second marriage, being married to fellow member of the TGG, Sheldon Adelson, founder of Las Vegas Sands, a corporation that formerly owned several resorts and casinos in Vegas, and still owns multiple resorts and casinos in South East Asia.

The reason my sports fandom made me aware of her is because at midnight EST, a trade was finalized that sent Slovenian star player, Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for what is essentially pennies on the dollar.

The trade itself isn't the point, although the trade itself is absurd, but what I learned about Miriam and her family is that apparently most of why they purchased the Dallas Mavericks is because they're trying to push legalization of gambling in Texas, which isn't illegal through a law, but through the state's constitution itself. The alleged main reason for this is because the lease for the American Airlines Center (the arena the Mavericks play in) is up in 2030, and the ownership wants to build a new arena attached to a casino. I'm curious about what Texans think about gambling and whether it should be made legal in the state, but what also surprised me as I was reading more and more about her is that she donates so much to the GOP instead of the Democrats, but owning casinos probably makes that make more sense.

What a lot of people are saying because the value of the trade itself is so absurd, is that the ownership of the Mavericks is trying to tank the fan attendance in order to justify moving to Las Vegas if trying to legalize gambling in Texas falls through, which makes sense but is utterly absurd. I'll keep it here because I'll answer more of the sport questions in the comments, but Miriam Adelson is someone to watch out for, as she has the ear of Trump and the money and influence to back it up.