By Eurohoops team / [email protected]
They paid a record $12.5 billion for the club. This is the highest price ever given to any professional sports team in history.
The timing makes this deal even bigger. The team changed hands just over a year ago for $10 billion . A jump of $2.5 billion in such a short window shows how fast sports assets grow in value today.
Why franchise values are going up
There are a lot of factors that can cause the value of a franchise and/or team to go up. You can see some of the biggest ones in the table below:
