LeBron James Part Of Sun Valley Billionaire Confab

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jul 7th 2009 at 8:02PM

As the LA Times points out, Kobe Bryant may won the NBA championship but it's Cleveland Cavaliers player LeBron James who the billionaires want to talk to in Sun Valley this week. The young player who is building his basketball and financial empire is part of this year's annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. The five-day conference includes many of the world's richest people including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Sumner Redstone, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg and Diane von Furstenberg. Another attendee likely to be in demand will be Twitter co-founder Evan Williams.

The conference takes over the area with private jets filling the local airport and hotel rooms selling out as both attendees and media flock to the event. While the event is supposed to be a hush-hush affair the press often gets the rare chance to spot the wealthy in casual clothes relaxing and enjoying Sun Valley's beautiful scenery. Meanwhile, behind closed doors the future of media itself and how to best monetize the digital world will be one of the topics of conversation.

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sports_bulgar2003 Jul 8th 2009 5:44AM

Well, LeBron James deserves to be part of the organization. He's anyway earned millions of dollars. As long as his money is in the right track instead of going it into vices, I really like what he did!.
I adore him for that.