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UNLV is selling its basketball team for $10 million, and the pitch is more serious than it sounds

7/27/2026

College basketball has entered an era where buying a program is now legal, and UNLV head coach Josh Pastner is leaning into it publicly.

He is soliciting buyers for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels men's basketball program, asking $10 to $12 million for what he calls ownership of the team.

The complication: nobody has yet defined in detail what that ownership actually delivers.

The case for buying the Rebels Pastner made the pitch directly to reporter Taylor Rocha, positioning it as a cheaper alternative to the Las Vegas NBA expansion dream that has occupied the city's investor class for years.