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Today, the list of wealthiest sports team owners includes two separate heirs to the Walmart fortune, Rob Walton and Ann Walton Kroenke, along with Bill Gates' former assistant Steve Ballmer.
Business Insider compiled a list of the wealthiest individuals who own a majority stake in a team from a major professional sports league and looked at how they made their fortunes, using data from Forbes.
These 10 billionaires —along with some of their families — are worth a combined $548.8 billion and own four soccer teams, four NBA teams, three NFL teams, two NHL teams, an MLB team, and a cricket team in India.
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10. Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen.Jim McIsaac/Getty Images
9. David Tepper
David Tepper.Chuck Burton/AP
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8. François Pinault
François-Henri Pinault.BSR Agency/Getty Images
7. Stan Kroenke and Ann Walton Kroenke
Stan and Ann Kroenke.FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images; John Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images