Alex Rodriguez and billionaire partner Marc Lore get major news on their troubled $1.5b Timberwolves purchase

Baseball fable Alex Rodriguez and concern spouse Marc Lore are yet connected the verge of acquiring the Minnesota Timberwolves from proprietor Glen Taylor 4 years aft archetypal agreeing to acquisition the NBA squad and its WNBA sister nine for $1.5 billion.

As a squad spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com, Taylor does not program to entreaty a 2-1 arbiters' ruling successful favour of Rodriguez and Lore, who person been successful a bitter feud with the outgoing owner. Most importantly, the $1.5 cardinal terms tag volition stay the same, according to ESPN's Shams Charania. 

Taylor antecedently accused the brace of missing a outgo successful their structured acquisition of the teams, portion Rodriguez and Lore accused him of having seller's remorse.  Forbes presently estimates the Timberwolves' worth to beryllium astir $3.1 billion.

DailyMail.com has reached retired for confirmation to the Timberwolves and a spokesperson for Rodriguez. 

Rodriguez and Lore inactive had $942 cardinal to wage to Taylor arsenic of February, according to a Sportico study astatine the time.

Rodriguez has called Taylor's misgivings 'f***ing childish' during an interrogation with Sportico, portion Lore has described the merchantability arsenic a 'matter of time' and 'how overmuch symptom Glen wants to enactment the fans, the players, the municipality and assemblage through.'

'It's his choice,' Lore continued. 'It didn't person to beryllium this way.'

Further exacerbating matters was a study by ESPN that Taylor was acrophobic astir Lore and Rodriguez's plans to chopped payroll dramatically.

The Timberwolves are already $132 cardinal implicit the NBA's brushed wage headdress for the 2024-25 play – much than immoderate different squad successful the league.

Minnesota fell to the Dallas Mavericks successful past year's Western Conference Finals.

This play the squad has taken a measurement backmost and is presently successful seventh spot successful the Western Conference. And unless Minnesota tin determination up implicit the season's last six games, the Timberwolves volition beryllium forced into the play-in tourney successful bid to beforehand to the postseason.