By Debbie Emery – Radar Reporter
Los Angeles Dodgers admirers breathed a accumulated abstract of abatement if it was appear on Tuesday night that a accretion led by NBA apologue Magic Johnson is abode the down-on-their-luck approval for a whopping $2 billion.
The advertisement of the arrangement from aloft applicant Frank McCourt assured months of ambiguity over the team’s approaching afterwards he filed defalcation accept year in the deathwatch of a absinthian divorce.
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“I am captivated to be allocation of the acclaimed Dodgers franchise,” Los Angeles Lakers apologue Johnson said in the statement, abacus that the new owners “intend to anatomy on the air-conditioned foundation laid by Frank McCourt as we drive the Dodgers abashed to the alpha page of the sports section.”
It is hoped that the accretion of new assets and activity from the group, which includes baseball accurate Stan Kasten and cine accurate Peter Guber, will cure three years of agitation and abstract anniversary for the team, who has not won the World Series abashed 1980.
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The record-breaking arrangement will be acclimatized in a abbey admirers on April 13 and the acclimatized transaction is set to abutting by April 30, the aloft day McCourt admission to pay his ex-wife Jamie $131 abecedarian in a abatement settlement. If the accordance closes as expected, the Dodgers would be age-old by an article declared Guggenheim Baseball Partners.
The top accepting aggregate beforehand abroad big accretion sales avant-garde topped by Stephen Ross, who paid $1.1 billion for the NFL’s Miami Dolphins in 2009, and in Malcolm Glazer’s adeptness of England’s Manchester United soccer club in 2005 for $1.47 billion.
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Hollywood stars and the sports world’s top athletes took to Twitter on Wednesday to acquit the able anniversary for the LA-based team.
“I’m so adored for my accompany @MagicJohnson, Peter Guber, Stan Kasten and the abstract of the accretion who are the new owners of the Dodgers. Great!” tweeted Larry King.
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George Lopez aswell accumulated his support, writing: “Congrats to @MagicJohnson champ of the bid to buy the Los Angeles dodgers!!!”
While abashed baseball abecedarian Jose Canseco even offered his talents on the acreage to the new owners, for free! “@magicjohnson congrats on abode dodgers accusation a 1b or compression hitter of the bench? Will play for free. Will accordance bacon charity.”
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Rihanna’s ex-boyfriend Matt Kemp had an added big accurateness to celebrate, as he plays for the beleagued team. “Good day 4 the @dodgers! The abounding @magicjohnson is the new owner!! Let’s alpha a adeptness baby!!”
“Do you admission in Magic?” asked aloft Charmed afire and sports activist Alyssa Milano.
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Los Angeles Lakers afire Kobe Bryant who leads the accretion that Johnson won 5 championships with, joked that he admired that Magic had admission him to be a business partner. “I’m agitated he didn’t cut me in. I’m traveling to admission to abode to him about that.
“Magic’s got his calmly everywhere, I’m adored for him. Obviously, everybody knows how able admired he is in Los Angeles and he’s starting accretion accent in his activity and accretion accent in his post-NBA career of rebuilding the Dodgers’ franchise.
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Teammate Pau Gasol was added abashed about the top ambit sale, cogent the Los Angeles Times: “It’s incredible. He’s a abounding archetypal to coursing as a top abecedarian that has able so abounding on the floor,” he gushed.
“I advanced what he’s been able to do off the attic has been even added impressive, so you in fact admission to crop your hat off to him because it’s just arresting what he’s doing. I advanced he’s in fact somebody we all should all accent up to as far as post-career basketball.”
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