Josh Harris won’t stop until he owns a team in every sport in every city.

From A.J. Perez at Front Office Sports:

HB Sports & Entertainment co-founder Josh Harris toured the Washington Commanders’ headquarters in Northern Virginia within the last week, a source with knowledge of the process told Front Office Sports. 

Harris, whose company owns the Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Devils, was the first to tour the Denver Broncos’ facility last May. Just a month after that visit, Harris’ bid to acquire that franchise came up short as a group led by Walmart heir Rob Walton agreed to purchase the Broncos for $4.65 billion. 

The Athletic was the first outlet to report that Harris had visited the Commanders’ facility in Ashburn. 

Of course Sixers fans don’t give one one-millionth of an iota about this because the optics of exploring a purchase of another team while skirting the luxury tax with a title contender is bad to them.

HBSE owns a ROBUST portfolio and it’s not news that they’d try to build on it. If Harris ends up with the Commies, he’d just have to buy the Orioles to own a hockey, basketball, football, and baseball team along the eastern seaboard.

More here from Ben Standig at The Athletic (now with ads):

Touring a team’s stadium or headquarters is not uncommon for prospective buyers before a first round of bids is due, which is in a few weeks, the people familiar with the sale process said. Last month, reports emerged that first-round bids had arrived in December, but the people who spoke with The Athletic for this story, one of whom is close to one of the possible buyers, said those were what are called non-binding indications of interest, not technically bids, though they usually include a sales price.

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Harris, who attended high school in the District of Columbia and grew up in the nearby Maryland suburbs, is considered a front-runner candidate to buy the team, assuming Snyder agrees to sell and the much-talked-about Jeff Bezos doesn’t enter the fray. Bezos, the Amazon founder, has the financial wherewithal to easily outbid the field, even Harris, who started the investment firm Apollo Global Management.

We shall see. In the meantime, go Birds.