ATLANTA (AP) — Real estate investor Larry Gottesdiener has been approved as the lead owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream following pressure on former Sen. Kelly Loeffler to sell her share of the team. Co-owner Mary Brock also sold her share of the club, which will remain in Atlanta. The three-member investor group includes former Dream guard Renee Montgomery and Suzanne Abair, president of Gottesdiener's firm. Players around the league had called for Loeffler, a Republican, to sell her 49% stake in the Dream after she objected to the league’s initiatives to advocate for racial justice and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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FILE - Atlanta Dream guard Renee Montgomery (21) passes the ball in the first half of a WNBA basketball game against the Chicago Sky in Atlanta, in this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, file photo. Larry Gottesdiener has been approved as the head of a new three-member ownership group of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream following pressure on former Sen. Kelly Loeffler to sell her share of the team. Friday's, Feb. 26, 2021, unanimous approval of the sale to Gottesdiener means co-owner Mary Brock also sold her share of the team, which will remain in Atlanta. Gottesdiener is chairman of the real estate firm Northland. The three-member investor group also includes former Dream guard Renee Montgomery and Northland president Suzanne Abair. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Posted at 1:06 PM, Feb 26, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-26 17:43:22-05
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