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Influence 125 highlights the most influential sports business figures of the past quarter-century. See the <\/i>list<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n Since acquiring a stake in the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1996, Larry Tanenbaum has brought the NBA, MLS, a WNBA expansion team and three minor league franchises to his hometown. The Toronto native built an eight-team portfolio that has combined to win seven championships, helped fund the construction or renovation of eight sports venues, and launched two RSNs. Tanenbaum<\/a>, SBJ\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in 2020, earned the trust of commissioners by tirelessly putting league-level interests above those of his teams; the respect of fans as he shuns suites to mingle with them during games; and the gratitude of his country, having been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, the country\u2019s highest civilian award.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sportsbusinessjournal.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Influence 125 highlights the most influential sports business figures of the past quarter-century. See the list. Since acquiring a stake in the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1996, Larry Tanenbaum has brought the NBA, MLS, a WNBA expansion team and three minor league franchises to his hometown. The Toronto native built an eight-team portfolio that has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[368797,368796,422887,353211,368798,423078],"class_list":["post-2191729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mlse","tag-most-influential","tag-print","tag-raptors","tag-toronto-fc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191730,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191729\/revisions\/2191730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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