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Last year, Eduardo Nájera purchased a stake in Dorados de Chihuahua, which operates professional baseball and basketball teams in the northern Mexican state he grew up in.

Nájera, who in 2000 became the first Mexican-born player drafted into the NBA, had long held ambitions of owning a sports team. Upon retirement in 2012, he bought a piece of the Texas Legends, the Dallas Mavericks’ G League affiliate. In 2023, he became a minority owner of the Dallas Sidekicks, a Major Arena Soccer League team.

Nájera’s investment in Dorados de Chihuahua was different than his others because it had little to do with dollars and cents. It was an emo

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