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Soaring sports team values create new pressure for owners on taxes, succession

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Sports team owners facing pressure from two of the oldest certainties in American wealth: death and taxes.

Succession and taxes have become especially important in the National Football League , where the average age of team owners is now over 72 .

CNBC 's Official 2024 NFL Team Valuations list, ranking all 32 professional franchises, will be released Thursday .

The NFL last week voted to allow select private equity firms to buy minority stakes in teams, giving owners and their families a chance to draw down cash that they could then reinvest in their teams or invest in nonsports assets to better diversify all while keeping control. "I think it's an appropriate thing to give the teams that liquidity to reinvest in the game and to their teams," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in making the announcement..

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