Sixers lead owner Josh Harris was among a group of business executives who met with President Trump this week to talk about infrastructure.
Harris, co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management, and the other execs joined the president over lunch Wednesday, according to the White House.
Trump has vowed to put $1 trillion into the nation's crumbling infrastructure but has not offered details on what that would fund or where the money would come from.
Harris' precise role at the meeting is unclear.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer described the lunch as a discussion "looking at infrastructure from a businessperson’s perspective.