Speaker 1: Oh, Minnesota. For the last twelve months, things have been
Speaker 1: going exceedingly well. It's probably too well when you think
Speaker 1: about the history of this franchise, what they have gotten,
Speaker 1: what they deserve. These last twelve months have been a dream.
Speaker 1: You locked up into Anthony Edwards. You ended up getting
Speaker 1: j Lo and a Rod buying your team with a
Speaker 1: guy who has more money than God. They want to
Speaker 1: change things around. They hire someone from Clutch Sports to
Speaker 1: fix the culture inside of Minnesota. You end up making
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You end up getting Rudy Go Bear. Things
Speaker 1: are by all definitions of fantasy world for Minnesota Timberwolves fans,
Speaker 1: and now we have our first hole, the first crack
Speaker 1: in the foundation that might have you saying rot Row,
Speaker 1: rot Row, Scooby, something is a miss out. J Lo
Speaker 1: might be the key and the disruptor and the impetus
Speaker 1: that has fucked up the entire Timberwolves ownership group. She
Speaker 1: does look great, she is banging. I do understand why
Speaker 1: someone would want to do business and pay billions of
Speaker 1: dollars just to be near her. How this happens wild story.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows. Last year, a partnership between a Rod and
Speaker 1: Mark Laurie won the bid to buy the Minnesota Timberwolves
Speaker 1: for two point two billion dollars. A Rod and Laurie
Speaker 1: were supposed to be fifty to fifty partners, but when
Speaker 1: the down payment came, things got a little suss. July
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. A Rod, obviously might make sense, just
Speaker 1: fell a little short by making his payment. It's not
Speaker 1: just a down payment on a Kia either. This wasn't
Speaker 1: just like a down payment on a nice home in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: This was a down payment worth two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars to pay twenty percent of the team. And
Speaker 1: guess what, my man, A Rod couldn't exactly find the
Speaker 1: change under his couch in order to make that two
Speaker 1: fifty two fifty. Sources say a Rod had to go
Speaker 1: to Mark Lori to help him out. Hey, I need
Speaker 1: you to spot me some couple of million. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much million, but it was significant. Sources close
Speaker 1: to the situation say Laurie had to cover the balance
Speaker 1: for a Rod. The result is that Lauri now owns
Speaker 1: thirteen percent of the team, a Rod just seven. It's
Speaker 1: not really spotting you if you don't end up getting
Speaker 1: the equity in the company. They just now have bought
Speaker 1: it from you. It gets better, though, so much better.
Speaker 1: The next down payment is due by year's end. Apparently
Speaker 1: a Rod is scrambling around like a DC rat trying
Speaker 1: to make that payment as well. An NBA source reports quote,
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if a Rod becomes a
Speaker 1: subservient number two to Laurie. The same source told Josh
Speaker 1: Cosmon at The New York Post that he predicted that
Speaker 1: Laurie would end up buying more than half and controlling
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves. Also, it appears that there's a cooling off
Speaker 1: personally between Louri and a Rod. Why, you may ask,
Speaker 1: what would cause Mark Lourie to want to spend less
Speaker 1: time around a rod? Well, no, Jlo. Of course, Jlo
Speaker 1: is the reason. Apparently, according to a source, said Mark
Speaker 1: got completely mesmerized by the Jelo thing. The Jlo thing.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again, Mark Glory was completely mesmerized
Speaker 1: by the Jelo thing. That is what we call a booty.
Speaker 1: He was mesmerized by the Ja Loo booty. And now
Speaker 1: that Jlo, the Jaylo thing is out of the picture,
Speaker 1: maybe a Rod is out of the picture too. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you get friends with someone because they've got
Speaker 1: a famous friend, and it's like, oh yeah, me and
Speaker 1: I don't know. Me and Drake are no longer friends.
Speaker 1: It's like, I just got real busy, just got who's
Speaker 1: gonna be at the club? No, Drake, I'm still in
Speaker 1: my sweatpants. Only one personal probably very happy about this,
Speaker 1: you guessed it. Maybe one of the worst owners in
Speaker 1: all of sports. Glenn Taylor, current owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: He believes currently that this franchise is worth more than
Speaker 1: the two billion dollars that he sold it for. I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe because they made the playoffs, Maybe because
Speaker 1: Aunt Edwards started in a movie. Maybe because a Rod
Speaker 1: This a Rod Jlo thing has added a little mystique
Speaker 1: to the team. So you can imagine him just wanting
Speaker 1: to swim in his little swim swimming pool full of
Speaker 1: gold doubloons, just trying to eat up and soak up
Speaker 1: more money from the last vestige of owning this franchise,
Speaker 1: hoping that the deal falls through, because what would happen, Well,
Speaker 1: Glenn Taylor will get to keep the down payments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get to keep the down payments. Those things are
Speaker 1: not refundable, and he would get to resell the team
Speaker 1: to someone else for even more money. God, I hope
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen, because then Glenn Taylor will get to
Speaker 1: keep the team for another two more years. The regime
Speaker 1: of sort of tom foolery and cheapness miser lee ways
Speaker 1: that he has is the last thing that this team
Speaker 1: needs when they're trying to make a push to contend
Speaker 1: for a title. That's all the time that we have
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