Less than three months after they attempted to get Philadelphia 76ers employees to take a pay cut because of the economic impacts of COVID-19, Joshua Harris and David Blitzer appear to have found the money to purchase a majority stake in a third professional sports team.
According to Scott Soshnick of Variety, Harris and Blitzer are at the front of a group that is interested in buying the New York Mets.
In March, Harris and Blitzer asked full-time employees of the Sixers to take a 20 percent paycut, suggesting that this would help to offset the losses from the COVID-19-forced suspension to the 2019-20 season and help the organization to continue to pay all of it’s hourly employees.