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See Tom Brady's Response to Rumors of an NFL Return
Tom Brady is acceptable to get successful the game.
But this time, alternatively of football, he's switching gears and moving implicit to hoops instead. The recently retired quarterback, 45, has acquired an ownership involvement successful the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces, the squad announced connected March 23.
"I got truly peculiar quality to stock today," Brady said successful an Instagram video. "I'm excited to denote I'm gonna go portion of the Las Vegas Aces organization. It was a substance of clip earlier I was backmost successful the gathering with immoderate of the top athletes successful the world."
The seven-time Super Bowl champion besides shared his personal connection to the acquisition decision.
"I grew up with 3 older sisters," helium noted. "They were each unthinkable athletes successful their ain right. They were relation models to me. It's wherever my emotion of women's sports began. I tagged along. I was the annoying small member to each their games. And they were the champion athletes successful our house, and they're inactive a large inspiration to me."
And Brady is thrilled to beryllium a portion of the Las Vegas Aces' family.
"I respect each the enactment the Aces players and unit and what the WNBA continues to bash to turn the athletics and to empower the aboriginal generations of pistillate athletes, 1 I person successful my ain family," the athlete—who shares 10-year-old girl Vivian with his ex-wife Gisele Bündchen—continued. "And I'm acceptable to lend successful immoderate mode imaginable arsenic a subordinate of specified a large organization. What an honor."
Brady—who also shares son Benjamin, 13, with the supermodel and has son Jack, 15, with ex Bridget Moynahan—expressed however helium wants to assistance adhd different trophy to the Aces' support pursuing their 2022 title victory.
"I can't hold to ticker these astonishing talented players bring different title to Las Vegas," helium concluded. "LFG!"
According to an Aces property release, Brady was archetypal introduced to the squad aft helium sat courtside astatine 1 of their games successful May.
"After seeing the outstanding prime of play, coupled with the excitement and passionateness of the Las Vegas Aces fans," the merchandise noted. "Tom knew helium wanted to beryllium a part of the organization."
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The merchandise stated that Brady's acquisition is taxable to the WNBA approval. And it's not the lone large determination he's made since announcing his NFL status successful February. The erstwhile subordinate of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New England Patriots besides talked astir however he's readying connected joining the Fox Sports broadcasting team successful the Fall of 2024.
Otherwise, he's continuing to tally his businesses, including Brady brand, and walk clip with his family.
"Playing shot I get truthful overmuch joyousness from it. I emotion it," helium said connected a January 2022 episode of Let's Go! With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray. "But not playing football, there's a batch of joyousness successful that for maine besides now, too, with my kids getting older and seeing them make and grow."
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