Fans are not buying what Floyd Mayweather was trying to sell over the weekend about owning an NBA team.
Mayweather spoke candidly about the topic during an autograph signing event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mayweather, who once made a public announcement that he was looking to purchase a stake in an NBA team, claimed he’s no longer interested because team ownership is “a lot of stress.”
“In the past, I talked about owning an NBA team, but it looks like it’s a lot of stress in the NBA being an owner,” Mayweather said, via Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Mick Akers.
“You see an owner get involved with the NBA, and he’s looking happy. Then as years progress, he’s looking older. So, I don’t know.”
Fans seem to think Mayweather’s lack of interest in buying an NBA team stems from a different reason — a financial one, to be more specific.
Floyd really out here blaming ‘stress’ like we don’t all know the real reason… you ain’t got no money left 😂💸
— BSA🌌 (@BSA545) March 31, 2026
Just say you don’t got the money man pic.twitter.com/ZOGiIvV26p
— OffsideCentre (@OffsideCentre) March 30, 2026
This is the equivalent of saying you’re not going to a party you were never invited to
— Yusuf (@yusuf_aofficial) March 30, 2026
Mayweather has conspicuously booked several fights this year, including a rematch against Manny Pacquiao that may be a decade too late. The sudden in-ring activity has raised suspicions that Floyd is running out of money. Mayweather also has a $340 million lawsuit pending against now-defunct boxing broadcaster Showtime.
While Mayweather may not be as “broke” as some believe, sports franchise ownership money is a different level of wealth. Even some of the most famous athletes in the world would need to go through most of their career earnings just to buy a minority stake in an unpopular sports team.
Regardless of Floyd’s true reasoning, it’s safe to assume he won’t be part of the Las Vegas ownership group once NBA expansion finally happens in the coming years.
