{"id":1023448,"date":"2026-08-25T16:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1023448\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:42:38","slug":"lebron-james-controlled-company-borrowed-almost-300-million-from-midwestern-life-insurers-advised-by-mark-walter-led-guggenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1023448\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James-controlled company borrowed almost $300 million from Midwestern life insurers advised by Mark Walter-led Guggenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When LeBron James signed up to lead the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Los Angeles Lakers&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> to NBA glory with a $154 million contract in 2018, it wasn&#8217;t the biggest deal he did that year. <a data-ylk=\"slk:Just months before he joined, a limited liability company he controls borrowed almost $300 million from a pair of Midwestern life insurers advised by an arm of Guggenheim Partners, according to insurance industry records reviewed by Bloomberg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Just months before he joined, a limited liability company he controls borrowed almost $300 million from a pair of Midwestern life insurers advised by an arm of Guggenheim Partners, according to insurance industry records reviewed by Bloomberg&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-25\/lebron-james-borrowed-300-million-from-insurers-arranged-by-guggenheim\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Just months before he joined, a limited liability company he controls borrowed almost $300 million from a pair of Midwestern life insurers advised by an arm of Guggenheim Partners, according to insurance industry records reviewed by Bloomberg<\/a>. The previously unreported bonds, which are due in 2049, were structured to provide immediate cash to James and backed by a stream of future revenue tied to his earnings outside basketball such as a lifetime Nike Inc. sponsorship, people with knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When LeBron James signed up to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to NBA glory with a $154 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1016798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[28129,3363,409458,58305,3141,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1023448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-guggenheim-partners","tag-lebron-james","tag-life-insurers","tag-limited-liability-company","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117157150257390151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}