Levy battles Spurs owners for NBA Europe London team
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- Daniel Levy is competing against the Lewis family, his former employers at Tottenham, in a consortium bidding war for the London-based NBA Europe team.
- The Lewis family are part of a consortium led by the Checketts family (owners/investors in MLS's Real Salt Lake and the NHL's St Louis Blues), with the Eccles family — Burnley FC and Espanyol shareholders — as the third leg.
- Levy left his role as Tottenham executive chairman in September 2025 after nearly 25 years, a departure that was widely understood to have been taken out of his hands despite official framing as a 'step down.'
- Levy's rival consortium includes Liberty Global and MSP Sports Capital, a former backer of McLaren Racing, and was previously reported by Sky News.
- London is the most highly prized of 12 new NBA Europe franchises, with other teams based in Berlin, Manchester, Milan, Munich, Paris, and Rome.
- The NBA is auctioning the 12 team rights to generate billions of dollars, with the first transactions expected in the coming weeks.
Why it matters: The auction makes Levy a direct rival to the family that ousted him from Spurs, with the winning consortium gaining control of the most prestigious of 12 NBA Europe franchises. The Checketts-Lewis-Eccles lineup — active across MLS, NHL, Premier League and La Liga — signals that cross-Atlantic sports investment is now consolidating into multi-league family portfolios, with billions in franchise rights up for grabs.
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