The LA Lakers star is a minority owner of Premier League club Liverpool, and has invested in other sporting franchises like Serie A club, AC Milan as well as the PGA Tour.
Some sales can be a blessing in disguise, helping you fund the signing of the club's greatest player of all time in one club's case, or helping a manager reinvest in other areas of the squad. Others can even save a club from going under.
The allegations amount to a rare attack on an ultra-rich company that dominates Thailand's duty-free industry and is run by one of the kingdom's most well-connected billionaires.
We have a relationship of 18 years since he arrived at the club and I always try to share with him things I'm thinking, he loves to be part of it and he wanted to be part of it."