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Most sports fans know Kevin Durant as an outstanding basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets, but the two-time NBA championship winner is also on a different team mdash; off the court.Durant and his longtime manager Rich Kleiman have launched a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, according to documents filed Wednesday with the Securities and stanley cup Exchange Commission. In the filing, Durant is listed as co-CEO for Infinite Acquisition, which plans to go public by merging with a company in the sports, health, food tech, ecommerce or cryptocurrency sector.The SPAC intends to go public under the ticker symbol NFNT and is seeking up to $200 million in investments from new shareholders. Durant and Kleiman didn t name a specific entity they are targeting for a merger. We have not selected any business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with any business stanley cup combination target, Durant and Kleiman said in the filing.Durant joins a growing list of well-known athletes who have started or invested in a SPAC, including Stephen Curry, Shaquille O Neal and Alex Rodriguez. S stanley cup PACs, also known as blank-check companies because they go public before finding a private company with which to merge, surged in popularity in 2020, drawing endorsements from celebrities and investors alike. Outside the sports world, shares of former president Donald Trump s ne Pktx Retired FBI executive assistant director starts new job as school bus driver to help community cope with shortage
MOREHEAD, Ky. -- A jailed Kentucky clerk asserted that marriage licenses issued without her authority Friday to same-sex couples in Rowan County are void and not worth the paper they are written on because she didn t authorize them, her attorney said.Kim Davis now wears an orange jumpsuit and has already been doing Bible studies with herself in jail, her attorney Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel told reporters after meeting with her behind bars. He said Davis is in very good spirits, and is prepared to stay as long as it takes to uphold her religious freedoms. She adidas samba s not going to resign, she s not going to sacrifice her conscience, so she s doing what Martin Luther King Jr. wrote about in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail, which is to pay the consequences for her decision, Staver said. Kentucky clerk sparks debate over religious freedom vs. obeying the law 03:15 Meanwhile, Staver said he s preparing to appeal U.S. District Judge David Bunning s contempt finding as one of several legal challenges on her behalf. She has a clean conscience, Staver said, even though she s incarcerated. At least three gay couples received marriage licenses Friday from one of Davis deputies, embracing and celebrating afte hoka r repeatedly being turned away before Davis wa salomon s jailed |
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