Maverick Carter, LeBron James' business manager, has been enlisted as an adviser by a group of investors seeking to raise $5 billion to form an international basketball league that would serve as a rival to the NBA,

The NBA could have some international competition if a group of investors being advised by Maverick Carter, LeBron James' business manager, follows through on its ambitions. Among the investors seeking to raise $5 billion to form an international basketball league are Skype co-founder Geoff Prentice,

Maverick Carter, longtime close friend and business partner of LeBron James, is an advisor to a group of investors looking to form an international basketball league, per Bloomberg. The investors are seeking $5 billion from private capital sources to create a league of six men's and six women's basketball teams that will tour around the globe across different cities to play.