{"id":46253,"date":"2014-05-19T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T20:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=46253"},"modified":"2014-05-19T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T20:18:56","slug":"dyrdeks-new-street-league-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=46253","title":{"rendered":"Dyrdek&#8217;s New Street League Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/streetleague.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/streetleague.jpeg','popup','width=740,height=550,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/streetleague-tm.jpg\" height=\"319\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Streetleague\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Boston Celtics managing partner <\/em><strong><em>Wyc Grousbeck<\/em><\/strong><em>, left, stands with venture capitalist <\/em><strong><em>Bob Higgins<\/em><\/strong><em>, center, and team co-owner <\/em><strong><em>Mark Wan.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Rob Dyrdek<\/strong> discovered he had &#8220;maxed out on. . . resources&#8221; for his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetleague.com\/\">Street League Skateboarding<\/a><\/strong> franchise, he did what businessmen have been doing for years: he looked for some new money. He found it in the form of $4 to $5 million dollars from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.causewaymp.com\">Causeway Media Partners<\/a><\/strong>. They&#8217;ve owned the <strong>Boston Celtics<\/strong> since 2002 and they&#8217;re looking to expand into other sports, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20140517\/NEWS\/305179527\">Telegram<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221;Skateboarding&#8217;s not a very expensive sport to pick up. It doesn&#8217;t require you be a part of a team,&#8221; said Causeway co-founder <strong>Mark Wan<\/strong>, who is also a part-owner in the Celtics and the San Francisco 49ers. &#8221;That&#8217;s one of the goals of street league is to make this really accessible.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See, if Dyrdek can get enough people flowing money into his project now then he&#8217;ll be able to make a big exit later while things are still on the up. That&#8217;s how business works. For the rest of the story, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20140517\/NEWS\/305179527\">click the link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20140517\/NEWS\/305179527\">Telegram<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics managing partner Wyc Grousbeck, left, stands with venture capitalist Bob Higgins, center, and team co-owner Mark Wan. When Rob Dyrdek discovered he had &#8220;maxed out on. . . resources&#8221; for his Street League Skateboarding franchise, he did what businessmen have been doing for years: he looked for some new money. He found it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46257,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46253\/revisions\/46257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}