Tristan Thompson
Supplying Web Round The World
… Secures New Gig!

Printed August 11, 2025 12:30 AM PDT

Tristan Thompson protects the online on the basketball court docket, however his new facet hustle is all about delivering it to unconnected folks worldwide!

TMZ Sports activities has discovered 34-year-old Thompson secured the C-suite gig with telecommunications firm World Cellular … the place the NBA champ will function Chief Digital Fairness Officer.

The NBA champ is not cashing a verify to function a spokesperson. We’re instructed Tristan believes in WM’s mission — connecting folks throughout the globe, many in underserved communities — with an web connection.

Relying on the place you reside, the web is a luxurious. Roughly a 3rd of Earth’s inhabitants can not join … partially ‘trigger in lots of circumstances it is not worthwhile for suppliers to do biz in rural or growing areas.

World Cellular, we’re instructed, is seeking to shake up how prospects get these companies.

Relatively than counting on costly infrastructure, WM makes use of a peer-to-peer community, permitting common on a regular basis folks to host AirNodes, constructing an expansive community.

As a part of his position with the corporate, we’re instructed Thompson is introducing the “Neighborhood Connectivity Fund,” a multi-million greenback initiative designed to beef up infrastructure and create pilot applications throughout the map.

The brand new job might make Tristan the busiest man in skilled sports activities.

Apart from prepping to play his 14th NBA season (he is at present a free agent) and touchdown with World Cellular, Thompson’s additionally doing biz up with two Synthetic Intelligence firms, together with TracyAI, a partnership we wrote about earlier this yr.