Prior to acquiring Liverpool in 2010, Fenway Sports Group had been on the hunt for more sporting additions to their empire.
FSG, then known as New England Sports Ventures, had already delivered success with the Boston Red Sox baseball team that they had owned since 2002, ending an 86-year wait for a World Series title. The first arrived in 2004, and another came along in 2007 as John Henry and Tom Werner changed the fortunes of a storied organisation that had been forced to live in the past.
In 2022 the focus for FSG's next power play is to acquire an NBA franchise, and there is potential that an expansion team in either Las Vegas or Seattle could be that route into the world's biggest basketball league, something that FSG partner and basketball icon LeBron James will likely front. Twelve years ago the same thoughts were in the mind of Henry and Werner as they sought to grow their empire, but a deal never materialised.
