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Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke has reached an impressive accomplishment in the world of sports ownership, with Denver’s NBA Finals victory giving him four championship teams spread across different leagues within the last two years.
Alongside owning the 2022-23 NBA Champion Nuggets, Kroenke also owns the 2021-2022 NFL Super Bowl Champion Los Angeles Rams, the 2021-2022 NHL Stanley Cup Champion Colorado Avalanche, and even the 2021-2022 National Lacrosse League Cup Champion Colorado Mammoth.
Denver’s win made Kroenke the first owner ever to win a championship in three different major American sports, following the previous NFL and NHL titles he already had lifted. The NLL is not considered a major American sports league.
‘In two years, the Kroenke’s have won a Super Bowl, have won a Stanley Cup and they’re in a position to win an NBA championship,’ Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton recently said. ‘It’s good to be a Kroenke the last two years.’
Despite the historic accomplishments that may see him considered to be the best owner in American sports, fans of the other high-profile team owned by Kroenke may beg to differ.
 Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke secured his fourth sports championship as a owner in two years
Kroenke recently won the NFL Super Bowl thanks to his Los Angeles Rams in 2022
His Colorado Avalanche also won the Stanley Cup Final in the NHL in 2022 to win him a double
Supporters of English Premier League runners-up Arsenal have not seemed to show the same love for Kroenke in North London as he has received in the States.
Two years ago Arsenal fans flooded the streets outside of The Emirates in protest of Kroenke, due to not only the team’s poor performance as they sat 11th in the league but also the proposed European Super League.
Homemade signs could be seen throughout the protest reading things like ‘Kroenke Out! Gunnersaurus In!’, ‘We Wouldn’t Wish Kroenke On Spurs’, ‘Stop the Standemic’, and many more.
A bevvy of transfers that transformed the Gunners lineup under head coach Mikel Artea over the last two years, however, might have at least softened the feelings towards Kroenke amongst Arsenal’s fanbase.
Arsenal have returned to the Champions League after finishing second in the 2022-23 Premier League season.
In London, though, there’s not quite the same reaction to the American owner at Arsenal
Fans protest outside the Emirates Stadium ahead of the Europa League semi-final in 2021
But it could have been better for the red side of north London – the team had an eight-point lead over Manchester City in April but hit a rocky patch at the worst time.
Yet overall, the season was one of progress for Arsenal, even if it didn’t deliver a league title.Â
As the summer’s transfer rumors have intensified the team has also been linked with a wildly expensive $100 million move for West Ham central defensive midfielder Declan Rice.
Andrew Allen, one of the main collaborators on the fan site Arseblog was quoted as saying to The Athletic in April: ‘It felt to me like KSE, as an enterprise, were sleeping at the wheel in those early years at Arsenal; they were disconnected and seemed happy with their status as passive rather than active owners.
‘It is very hard to come back from that impression, but things have got better.Â
‘The thing that tickles most supporters is loosening the purse strings to buy players who have improved the team.’
The proposed European Super League also sparked anger at Kroenke from Arsenal fans
Arsenal fans will be looking at Denver with jealousy, having not won the league since 2004
Only two years ago Arsenal fans were very vocal about protesting against Kroenke’s ownership
‘They also deserve credit for signing off on Arteta’s recruitment, which was a big decision in taking on a coach that young who had no experience at the highest level as a manager.
‘And they deserve credit for backing him when it would have been very easy to pull the trigger.Â
‘They saw something in Arteta, a vision that they themselves couldn’t conjure up.
‘They have gone up in my estimation a tad since those early years. I feel more confident that the people below them are of the required standard to run a football club like Arsenal, and that is all we need now.’
