Jay-Z’s First B-Ball Team

January 29th, 2011  |  Published in Sports

The Nets aren't Jay-Z's first basketball team.

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Zack O'Malley Greenburg is a Forbes senior editor and author of the Jay-Z biography Empire State of Mind. He's now writing his second book, Michael Jackson, Inc, for Simon & Schuster. Zack pens The Beat Report at Forbes, where he has worked for the past five years, profiling subjects from Justin Bieber to Jon Bon Jovi. Zack has also written for the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Vibe and McSweeney's; guest-lectured at Yale, Harvard and Georgetown; and appeared as a source for BBC, MTV, E! and CNN. Full bio here.


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