Don Carter (businessman)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Don Carter (basketball))
Jump to: navigation, search
Don Carter in trademark cowboy hat at a Dallas Mavericks game, April 4, 2006.
Don Carter in trademark cowboy hat at a Dallas Mavericks game, April 4, 2006.

Don Carter is an investor and businessman, perhaps most known as the founder of the Dallas Mavericks NBA and Dallas Sidekicks MISL franchise.

Carter was born into a poor family in Arkansas in 1933. However, by 1957, his mother, Mary Crowley made a fortune in a direct marketing interior decoration business, known as Home Interiors & Gifts. The business was sold to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and is estimated to have netted Carter US$470 million.

Carter, along with Norman Sonju, founded an NBA expansion team, the Dallas Mavericks, in 1980. His $12 million investment in the team eventually earned him $125 million when he sold the team in 1996 to an investment group led by H. Ross Perot, Jr..

Over the years, Carter has owned many different types of businesses, including a Rolls-Royce dealership. Other businesses include banks, trucking firms, hotels, rodeo arenas, and cattle ranches.

Always seen wearing a cowboy hat (which was also once the Mavericks' logo), Carter looks the part of a Texas billionaire. A minority (4%) owner, he frequently attends Mavericks games.

Carter currently resides in Denton, Texas

 This article does not cite any references or sources. (April 2007)
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Carter_%28businessman%29"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.