LeBron James Suggests He May Buy Atlanta Dream

ATLANTA, GA — NBA star LeBron James tweeted just after midnight Jan. 6, suggesting that he may be interested in buying the Atlanta Dream, the WNBA franchise co-owned by former Sen. Kelly Loeffler.

James posted the following tweet at 12:28 a.m., along with a photo of Dream players wearing T-shirts with the phrase "Vote Warnock":

"Think I'm gone put together an ownership group for The Dream. Whose in? #BlackVotesMatter."

Senator-elect Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, has been declared the winner over Loeffler in one of the two pivotal Georgia Senate runoff elections.

Think I’m gone put together an ownership group for the The Dream. Whose in? #BlackVotesMatter pic.twitter.com/9wclgdED2w
— LeBron James (@KingJames) January" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/KingJames/... 6, 2021

There is no indication that James actually intends to buy the franchise.

Dream players protested Loeffler comments last year in regard to the Black Lives Matter movement by wearing the "Vote Warnock" T-shirts and through social media posts, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. They wore the T-shirts before a nationally-televised game against Phoenix, and several players remained active leading up to the Jan. 5 runoffs.

"There is no room for racism in this country. We cannot have it," Loeffler said in July 2020. "But there is an organization, different from the saying, an organization called Black Lives Matter founded in Marxist principles. Marxism supports socialism."