Reaffirming the franchise's desire to relocate to Southern Nevada in the wake of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson withdrawing his $650 million pledge last week, Oakland Raiders President Marc Badain told a meeting of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board that "financing will not be an issue" on Thursday.
And while the Raiders also lost the financing of Goldman Sachs, a longtime business partner of Adelson, Badain said "multiple financial institutions" had shown interest in the project for the $1.9 billion, $65,000-seat domed stadium the Raiders would share with UNLV. Badain, though, did not disclose said interested parties.