Joe Tsai is about to close on a 49.5 percent stake in the Nets and already owns the San Diego franchise in the national professional lacrosse league. Now, according to Page Six of the New York Post, he’s about to join the team bidding for the Carolina Panthers of the NFL, but he hasn’t commented on it and ESPN makes no mention of Tsai in its report on the bidding.
Tsai, co-founder of Alibaba, the Chinese-based e-commerce giant, has seen his estimated net worth nearly double in the last year, giving him about $11 billion in assets minus liabilities.