Naomi Osaka and LeBron James launch new media firm

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4-time main winner Naomi Osaka is launching a brand new media firm in partnership with NBA celebrity LeBron James, the tennis star has introduced.

Hana Kuma, which implies “flower bear” in Japanese, will produce tales which might be “culturally particular however common to all audiences,” an announcement learn.

James and Maverick Carter’s The SpringHill Firm will, stated the assertion, present “important manufacturing, growth, and strategic sources” to Hana Kuma.

“There was an explosion of creators of coloration lastly being outfitted with sources and an enormous platform,” Osaka stated within the assertion.

“Within the streaming age, content material has a extra world perspective. You possibly can see this within the reputation of tv from Asia, Europe, and Latin America that the distinctive may also be common.

“My story is a testomony to that as properly. I’m so excited for what we're constructing at Hana Kuma. We'll deliver tales to life with this objective in thoughts: to make distinctive views really feel common and encourage folks alongside the way in which.”

The manufacturing firm is the newest mission between Osaka, 24, and her long-time agent Stuart Duguid. The pair even have a sports activities company named Evolve, which signed Australian tennis participant Nick Kyrgios on Monday.

In line with Forbes, Osaka turned the world’s highest-paid feminine athlete in historical past by incomes about $37 million in 2020 because of a protracted checklist of sponsorship offers.

She won't be competing at Wimbledon this yr due to an ongoing challenge along with her Achilles.