Franchise Valuations

Research

The Lakers' 25% Leap: Why Sports Scarcity, Not Earnings, Is Setting the New Asset Floor

The Lakers' record valuation is a repricing of scarce live attention, league-level media rights and the limited supply of franchises.

Empty NFL stadium at dusk with a single warm sun on the horizon, symbolizing the scarcity and institutional gravity of American football franchise ownership.

Sports

The Khosla Signal: Why $9.6 Billion for the Seahawks Is the New NFL Floor, Not the Ceiling

SK Lee — Sports & consumer desk On July 11, the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced it had agreed to sell the Seattle Seahawks to a family investment group led by Vinod Khosla for $9.612 billion. The number reset the US sports franchise record by 59 percent