Circular Financing

A 20% one-year return on the Lakers sale reads as a distress signal, not a win, amid insurance-financing and sovereign-wealth-fund questions.

• Lakers flip raises flags: Mark Walter bought the Lakers for $10B and sold for $12.5B fourteen months later—a 20% return the hosts call a red flag, not a win, since nobody exits a crown-jewel asset that fast unless forced.
• Insurance money under scrutiny: Walter allegedly misreported the share of life-insurance assets funneled into sports franchises, reportedly rising from a claimed ~2% toward ~40%, echoing a 12-year-old Andrew Ross Sorkin report on Dodgers financing.

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