Owners, not players, top Forbes’ rich of the super-rich

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Forbes magazine’s September issue includes its annual list of the 400 richest Americans. Two notable names not on their list of the ‘athletically affluent’: Lakers’ owner Jerry Buss and Beverly Hills landlord and Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling.

Here are the top 10 richest sports owners from the Forbes list:

1.) E. Stanley Kroenke ($3.5 billion) and his wife, Ann Walton Kroenke ($3.4 billion). Stan owns the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche and has stakes in the St. Louis Rams and the English soccer team Arsenal.

2.) Mark Cuban ($2.6 billion) owns the Dallas Mavericks and is bidding to buy the Chicago Cubs, currently owned by Tribune Co., publisher of the L.A. Times.

3.) Malcolm Glazer and family ($2.3 billion) counts the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Manchester United of the English Premier League among his holdings.

4.) H. Wayne Huizenga ($2.2 billion). He hired Bill Parcells to revive his struggling Miami Dolphins.

5.) Michael E. Heisley Sr. ($2.1 billion) owns the struggling Memphis Grizzlies, but has been trying to sell the team.

6.) B. Thomas Golisano ($1.7 billion), owner of the Buffalo Sabres.

7.) Michael Illitch ($1.6 billion) from Detroit got rich from the Little Caesars Pizza chain and he owns the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings.

8.) Drayton McLane Jr. ($1.6 billion) owns Houston Astros.

9.) Jeremy Jacbos ($1.6 billion) is much derided in Boston. He owns the Boston Bruins and the TD Banknorth Garden, where the Bruins and Celtics play, plus a piece of the New England Sports Network that telecasts Red Sox games.

10.) Robert Kraft ($1.5 billion), much beloved in Boston for his ownership of the New England Patriots and his hiring of Bill Belichick.

-- Barry Stavro