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Maverick Carter is an American sports-marketing businessman and media personality.
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Maverick Carter | |
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| Maverick Carter in 2019 | |
| Born | 1981or1982(age 42–43) |
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Maverick Carter is an American sports-marketing businessman and media personality.
Maverick Carter was born on October 10, 1980, [1] though multiple sources citing his age in different years would place his birthday in 1981 or 1982. [2] He spent most of his youth in Akron, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia. Carter grew up the son of Katherine Powers, a social worker, and Otis Carter. [3] He is a longtime friend of LeBron James; both played basketball and football at St. Vincent–St. Mary High School (SVSM) in Akron. [4] He also played on the same team as Jay Williams at the Five Star Camp. [5] After graduating from SVSM, Carter played college basketball for one season at Western Michigan before transferring to the University of Akron and focusing on other endeavors. [3]
Carter interned with Nike, withdrawing from college to become a Nike field representative. [3] He has served as James' business manager since 2006. Carter, along with James, Rich Paul, and Randy Mims, is one of the founders and principals of agent and sports-marketing company LRMR. Carter was responsible for engineering The Decision, a television special. [3]
Carter arranged a deal between LRMR and Fenway Sports Group that secured James a partial stake in Liverpool F.C. and bolstered his overseas profile. [6] He also developed The LeBrons series of commercials featuring caricatures of James. [3] He and James also founded SpringHill Entertainment, a collaborator of Warner Bros. whose projects include the Disney XD series Becoming, the Starz series Survivor's Remorse , the NBC game show The Wall , the Bleacher Report spinoff Uninterrupted, and Space Jam: A New Legacy . [7] In 2021, Carter parlayed a deal whereby he and James each gained part ownership stakes of the Boston Red Sox.[ citation needed ]
He was an executive producer, alongside James and Drake, of Hubert Davis's 2022 documentary film Black Ice . [8]
LeBron Raymone James Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "King James", he is widely recognized as one of the greatest players in the sport's history and is often compared with Michael Jordan in debates over the greatest basketball player of all time. James has won four NBA championships from 10 NBA Finals appearances, having made eight consecutive appearances between 2011 and 2018. He also won the inaugural NBA Cup in 2023 with the Lakers and three Olympic gold medals as a member of the U.S. men's national team.
Space Jam is a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film directed by Joe Pytka and written by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris, and Herschel Weingrod. The film stars basketball player Michael Jordan as a fictional version of himself; the live-action cast also includes Wayne Knight and Theresa Randle, as well as cameos by Bill Murray and several NBA players, while Billy West, Dee Bradley Baker, Kath Soucie and Danny DeVito headline the voice cast. The film follows Jordan as he is brought out of retirement by the Looney Tunes characters to help them win a basketball match against invading aliens intent on enslaving them as amusement park attractions.
St. Vincent–St. Mary High School is a private, co-educational, college preparatory Catholic high school in Akron, Ohio, United States. It is sponsored by the Society of Mary and is associated with the Diocese of Cleveland. As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 638 students.
The LeBrons are a mock family of American basketball player LeBron James's that was featured in commercials for Nike's line of James's shoes. The four members of the family each represent an aspect of James's personality that compete for control over him. The commercials consist of two "seasons", each like a miniature TV show episode.
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The Decision was a 2010 television special on ESPN in which National Basketball Association (NBA) player LeBron James announced which team he would join for the 2010–11 season. James was an unrestricted free agent after playing his first seven NBA seasons for the Cleveland Cavaliers; he was a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player and a six-time All-Star. He grew up in nearby Akron, Ohio, where he received national attention as a high school basketball star. During the special, James revealed that he would be signing with the Miami Heat.
Mark Termini is a Cleveland, Ohio-based sports attorney and agent. His agency Mark Termini Associates Inc represents professional basketball players. He negotiated $1.4 billion in NBA contracts for the clients of the Klutch Sports Group from 2014 to 2019.
Rich Paul is an American sports agent and founder of Klutch Sports Group. His most notable client is basketball player LeBron James with whom he is also a longtime friend.
Paul David Wachter is an American businessman and investment adviser whose clients include Arnold Schwarzenegger, LeBron James, U2 frontman Bono, Beats by Dre co-founder Jimmy Iovine, Drake, Billie Eilish and Tom Werner, Chairman of the Boston Red Sox and the Liverpool Football Club. He has played a leading role in high-profile investment deals including the 2002 acquisition of the Boston Red Sox by New England Sports Ventures, an ownership group he became partner to in 2021. Wachter was also a founding member of the board of Beats Electronics since 2008 and led the negotiation of the Beats sale to Apple. Along with LeBron James, he was among the executive producers of the Starz scripted series, Survivor's Remorse, and HBO’s What’s My Name, a documentary on Muhammad Ali, and is the executive producer of the 2023 Netflix series Arnold. He is now Chairman of the Board of United Talent Agency (UTA).
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Best Shot is an American documentary series directed by Michael John Warren and starring Jay Williams. The series follows Newark Central High School's basketball team, showing the lives of the players and the fortunes of the team, as they are mentored by Williams. It premiered on July 18, 2018 on YouTube Premium. The series is executive produced by LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard, Jordan Wynn, and Warren.
LeBron Raymone "Bronny" James Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the USC Trojans. A consensus four-star recruit, James was named a McDonald's All-American as a senior in high school in 2023. He played one season of college basketball for the USC Trojans before being selected 55th overall by the Lakers in the 2024 NBA draft. He is the eldest child and teammate of professional basketball player LeBron James Sr., making them the NBA's first active father-son duo.
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The Shop: Uninterrupted, or simply The Shop, is an American television talk show created by Paul Rivera. It stars professional basketball star LeBron James and businessman Maverick Carter, who alongside guests have conversations and debates in a barbershop. The series premiered on HBO in the United States on August 28, 2018. On February 28, 2022, the series was renewed for a fifth season and moved to YouTube. In 2021, the series won a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Edited Sports Series.
SpringHill Company is an entertainment development and production company founded in 2020 by LeBron James and Maverick Carter. Its board of directors includes Serena Williams. The company unites three earlier companies founded by James and Carter: SpringHill Entertainment, an entertainment production company founded in 2007, the Robot Company, an integrated marketing agency and brand and culture consultancy founded by Carter and James together with Paul Rivera, the creator of the talk show The Shop, and Uninterrupted, founded in 2015 with the aim to empower athletes by providing a platform that allows them to share their stories.
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The recognition is nice, but it's old news for the 36-year-old Carter.
As you pass him in the idling S550, you would not mistake the 29-year-old CEO for a pro athlete, an actor, a singer or an entertainer.
Carter and I were introduced in 2006. James was 21 at the time and had just completed his third NBA season with Cleveland. Carter was 24.
