Glen Taylor, Minnesota Timberwolves
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If the Minnesota Timberwolves transition of power didn’t seem obnoxious enough as it was, new details give things a whole new level of hilarity.
The reality is that Glen Taylor agreed to a sale price for Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez that was substantially below market value by the time the asset was set to trade hands. He attempt to do what he could in order to nullify the deal, but it went through anyways. His process during and through arbitration though, is something essentially out of a movie.
Glen Taylor tried to mean girl his way into keeping the MN Timberwolves
With an arbitration hearing on deck, Glen Taylor attempted to arm himself with ammunition capable of keeping the Minnesota Timberwolves in his hands. Rather than presenting factual evidence though, he literally created a 77 point list or irrelevant information as to why the new owners weren’t qualified. Pablo Torre highlighted what reads like the Mean Girls script on Tuesday.
.@PabloTorre reports that Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor created a 77-item, Mean Girls-style "burn book" in a "baffling" effort to kill the franchise sale to Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore. pic.twitter.com/7pu1MKwIv4
— Pablo Torre Finds Out (@pablofindsout) October 21, 2025
“Glen Taylor’s legal strategy, was quote, baffling…Glen Taylor, in the months during this push and pull, had two executives create what amounts to a Burn Book. As in, a Mean Girls style list, a list that has been described to me as number and 77 items long. This list of 77 things, Glen Taylor slash the Timberwolves, hate about Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez, was communicating to the NBA and to anyone who would listen, you can’t approve these guys.
Some items on this are, Marc Lore had dinner with Kevin Garnett and never told me. Alex Rodriguez did steroids. A-Rod is a liar. A-Rod is a cheat. A-Rod had the largest suspension in MLB history. They get to 77 things, but it’s all along the lines of, does he remember that this is a hearing related to arbitration about a legal contract. None of this has anything to do with anything.”
Pablo Torre
The level of hilarity that must have ensued for all involved here must have been unprecedented. Glen Taylor’s strategy comes across like something that would jive with what looks to be a walking zombie sitting courtside for Timberwolves games.
Torre went on to explain that Taylor’s team further tried to drive their point home during the hearing with video exhibits, one of which was Rodriguez’s interview with Katie Couric nearly two decades ago, in which he denied steroid use. Again, none of this has any bearing on a legal process about a completely disconnected subject.
As if it weren’t enough that Taylor embarrassed himself during the arbitration process, he further did so during the NBA owners voting process. Unable to find the mute button on a league-wide Zoom call, his counterparts helped him troubleshoot technology only to tell him he was out.
MN Timberwolves owe Glen Taylor one last favor
It would be fine for Glen Taylor to take his $1.4 billion and walk away with his tail between his legs. A public embarrassment for years, it reached a boiling point during this process. Still though, he will remain in the public eye after negotiating one final plea with the new owners of his former franchise.
“What Glen Taylor negotiates at the finish line, is to have Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez purchase for him, for the next decade, four courtside seats next to the team bench.”
Pablo Torre
Someday Lore and Rodriguez will have a new stadium built. I’d doubt that there will ever be a statue of Glen Taylor anywhere in or outside of it. For the foreseeable future though, the aging fossil will sit courtside as he wipes the tears that represent the additional dollars he could have earned.
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