Las Vegas Sun

March 19, 2024

All In: Behind the scenes with the Golden Knights, Vegas’s first major league franchise

Vegas Golden Knights Unveiling Ceremony

Steve Marcus

Owner Bill Foley celebrates as the team name and logo for the Las Vegas NHL franchise are unveiled in the Toshiba Plaza at T-Mobile Arena Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. The team name is the Vegas Golden Knights.

The billionaire who delivered major league sports to Las Vegas rides in a black SUV with tinted windows and private security at the wheel, an ex-military man like himself. Outside, the sun sets on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving—first over the peaks of Red Rock Canyon, then over the quiet desert suburbs of Summerlin, where his purchase of a house in March 2015 earned coverage in the local papers.

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