Our Last Shows: A Look Back at Final Concerts Before the World Went Quiet
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Brenna Ehrlich, Hank Shteamer, David Browne, Andy Greene, Andrew Firriolo, Jonathan Bernstein, Mankaprr Conteh, Rick Carp, Griffin Lotz, Jason Newman, Jon Freeman, Rob Sheffield and Kory Grow
March 10, 2021, 6:25 AM·28 min read
A year ago, our lives ground to a halt as Covid-19 spread across the U.S. Everything but essential businesses shut down, schools closed, and the music world stopped in its tracks. Tour announcements became tour cancellations, festivals were called off, and those of us who attended several live shows per week found ourselves on our couches, grieving not only the fallout of the pandemic but the loss of one of our greatest comforts: music.
Minor mystery solved? Report indicates Tsai paid low eight figures for New York Liberty
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While the price Joe Tsai paid for the Nets and Barclays Center has been reported at between $3.3 and $3.5 billion the most ever for an NBA franchise and arena, there’s been no reporting on how much he paid James Dolan and MSG for the Liberty in January 2019. Terms of the sale were never revealed publicly.
At the time, Tsai was a minority owner 49 percent of the Nets and held no interest in Barclays. He had an option to buy the rest of the Nets, then set for this year, but things accelerated and in September 2019, Tsai became “governor,” the principal owner, of the Nets and operator of Barclays Center, which is owned by the State of New York and leased.
The state of New Jersey is allowing sports fans back into games in the coming weeks, with 10% allowed at indoor buildings and 15% at outdoor buildings above 5,000 in capacity.