{"id":488415,"date":"2026-03-16T21:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488415"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:48:30","slug":"phoenix-suns-ownership-dispute-headed-to-mediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/phoenix-suns-ownership-dispute-headed-to-mediation\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns ownership dispute headed to mediation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1645\" data-end=\"2121\">The legal fight between <strong data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1685\">Phoenix Suns<\/strong> owner <strong data-start=\"1692\" data-end=\"1706\">Mat Ishbia<\/strong> and two minority partners is expected to move into <strong data-start=\"1758\" data-end=\"1792\">confidential binding mediation<\/strong>, per a new court filing submitted Monday in <strong data-start=\"1837\" data-end=\"1861\">Delaware state court<\/strong>. If the judge approves the proposal, the case would be <strong data-start=\"1917\" data-end=\"1938\">jointly dismissed<\/strong>, and Ishbia could be positioned to <strong data-start=\"1974\" data-end=\"1985\">buy out<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"1986\" data-end=\"2002\">Scott Seldin<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2007\" data-end=\"2024\">Andy Kohlberg<\/strong>\u2019s combined <strong data-start=\"2036\" data-end=\"2049\">13% stake<\/strong> at a price set by the mediator.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2123\" data-end=\"2409\">The dispute, filed in November 2025, had escalated to the point that it raised questions about Ishbia\u2019s control position, with filings arguing his majority stake could be significantly diluted depending on how the operating agreement was applied.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2411\" data-end=\"2635\">If the buyout proceeds, Ishbia would remove the last remaining ownership holdovers from the <strong data-start=\"2503\" data-end=\"2520\">Robert Sarver<\/strong> era and could increase his stake to roughly <strong data-start=\"2565\" data-end=\"2572\">96%<\/strong>, per ESPN\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2637\" data-end=\"2741\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaware filing outlines confidential binding mediation, potentially setting a mediator-determined price and ending the lawsuit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":374015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-488415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Phoenix-Suns.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488415"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488415"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488415"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}