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There was something James' agent, Rich Paul, told CNBC at the time that still resonates now. “It’s breaking down the barriers,” Paul said. “You’re talking about a game that was once limited. Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente – guys like that people didn’t even want to play the game. The Negros had to have their own league to us now owning and representing in that business sector. It’s a testament to us continuing to evolve and not being complacent.” What Paul made clear was James' investment was only the beginning. It seems almost a certainty James will try to buy an NBA team.

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Paul, who represents James via Klutch Sports Group, is also involved with Major League Baseball after adding a baseball division to his agency last April. He labeled James and Carter’s involvement with FSG as a sign of things to come for the basketball icon. “It’s breaking down the barriers,” Paul told CNBC on Tuesday. “You’re talking about a game that was once limited. Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente – guys like that people didn’t even want to play the game. The Negros had to have their own league to us now owning and representing in that business sector. It’s a testament to us continuing to evolve and not being complacent.”

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He felt, regardless of the federal government's role, that it was his duty as a high-profile professional athlete to help struggling Puerto Ricans as much as possible. "We have an example: Roberto Clemente," Barea says, referring to the Puerto Rican baseball legend and humanitarian who died at 38 years old in a Dec. 31, 1972 plane crash while en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua, a couple of months before the coliseum named after him opened. "That's our example; we've got to follow it. Starting with me and the baseball players, if everybody does their job to help ... And I think we did a good job, we did a good job of helping. The basketball players, the baseball players, the artists, the singers, whatever -- we've got to help."

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