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Over the summer, Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore officially became the proud new owners of the Timberwolves after finalizing a contentious sale where the man who offloaded the franchise did everything in his power to block it. That apparently includes channeling his inner Mean Girls by putting together a “burn book” filled with alleged transgressions designed to cast A-Rod and his business partner in a bad light.
In 1994, wedding invitation magnate Glen Taylor purchased the Minnesota Timberwolves for $88 million, and it looked like he was going to get a very sizeable return on his investment after an ownership group led by Alex Rodriguez and former Walmart CEO Marc Lore agreed to buy the franchise (as well as the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx) for $1.5 billion in 2021.
However, what seemed poised to be a fairly straightforward transaction became an unexpectedly contentious one due to the rising NBA and WNBA revenues that led to Taylor having seller’s remorse after realizing he may have missed out on an even larger payday by prematurely pulling the trigger on the sale.
In 2024—a year where Forbes pegged the value of the Timberwolves at $3.1 billion—Taylor attempted to exercise his right to stop the sale by asserting Rodriguez and Lore had missed the deadline for the payment that was slated to give them an 80% stake in the franchise. That led to the two parties entering mediation and agreeing to an arbitration process, where the new owners prevailed.
The sale was officially finalized when the NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved it this June, and we now have some more insight into the lengths Taylor went in his unsuccessful quest to block it.
Former Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor put together a list of 77 gripes in a “burn book” at the center of a smear campaign against Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore
Pablo Torre has treated us to a generational run of investigative hating during a year where he’s gotten some amazing scoops concerning Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson while blowing the lid off the ongoing scandal involving the endorsement deal the Clippers seemingly used to circumvent the salary cap and sign Kawhi Leonard.
At this point, it’s very obvious you do not want to find yourself at the center of an episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, but that’s the fate Taylor met when the newest installment dropped on Tuesday.
Torre did a deep dive into Taylor’s time as the owner of the Timberwolves and the messy sale that brought his tenure to an end, which included the “burn book” that Torre described as a “Mean Girls-style list” of 77 separate offenses A-Rod and Lore were accused of in an attempt to prove why they weren’t fit to own an NBA franchise.
.@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
Those accusations included “Alex Rodriguez did steroids” and other gripes linked to that particular revelation, along with the objectively hilarious “Marc Lore had dinner with Kevin Garnett and never told me.”
When it comes to the lengths Taylor was willing to go to in order to stop the sale, I guess you could say…the limit does not exist.