CBS Sports reported that Bezos, 55, may be interested in acquiring an NFL team, and the Washington Post, which Bezos owns, said the billionaire 'may or may not want to buy' the Seattle Seahawks.
Cuban said Bezos would inject some new "blood" into an older NFL ownership group should he eventually find a team willing to sell.
"They've had some new folks come in, but Jeff is a special guy," Cuban said in an interview Thursday before the Mavs fell 106 - 103 to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Hedge fund manager David Tepper, 62, is one of the league's newer owners having purchased the Carolina Panthers for $2.2 billion in July. Cuban said of Bezos, "the NFL could probably use him.
The addition of Bezos would also provide a better understating of "the value of the content," especially in a society where consumers are continually ditching linear TV and finding other ways to view live sports, Cuban said. One way is through Amazon Prime, which has aired NFL Thursday Night games since agreeing to purchase the rights in 2018 for a $130 million.
"The biggest question for professional sports right now is what's the equilibrium between streaming and traditional TV," Cuban said. "Where will sports rights fees be over the next five, 10, 20 years, that's the question." Last weekend, CBS Sports reported that Bezos, 55, may be interested in acquiring an NFL team, and the Washington Post, which Bezos owns, said the billionaire "may or may not want to buy" the Seattle Seahawks. But the team isn't for sale, according to an official at Vulcan Sports & Entertainment, which owns and runs the Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers.
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