SHANGHAI — When reports began circulating last week that a Chinese investor was bidding to take over the Liverpool soccer club in the English Premier League, British tabloids quickly called him King Kenny.
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Kenny Huang, 46, is a globe-trotting sports enthusiast who has made marketing deals in China with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Yankees.
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Glen Johnson, right, plays for Liverpool, which could cost as much as $600 million, including the assumption of debt.

That little-known investor is Kenny Huang, 46, a globe-trotting sports enthusiast who has made marketing deals in China with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Yankees, and has entered into a business partnership with Leslie Alexander, the owner of the Houston Rockets.