Glen Taylor Tried Everything to Stop Timberwolves Sale… Including a Burn Book?

If the Minnesota Timberwolves transition of power didn’t seem obnoxious enough as it was, new details that dropped on the Glen Taylor vs Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore buy/sell saga a whole new level of obscenity.

Nearly a half-decade ago, Taylor agreed to sell the Wolves and Lynx to Lore and A-Rod at a price that, not long after, he realized was substantially below market value. Throw in the sky-rocketing prices of professional sports franchises in the time since a deal was consummated, and the logic behind Glen’s buyer’s remorse is easy to find.

Fortunately for Lore, Rodriguez and MN Timberwolves fans, the purchasing group never stepped outside of the parameters set by the ironclad original contract, so Taylor had no way to nullify the deal.

So while it years longer and millions of dollars (in legal fees) more than it should have, but eventually the owner of 30 years was forced to hand over the keys to Target Center.

Glen Taylor tried to mean girl his way into keeping the MN Timberwolves

But as the arbitration hearings were happening, Glen Taylor made one final (desperate) attempt to keep the Minnesota Timberwolves under his control by digging up dirt on Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez that he felt would make the NBA refuse the sale.

His big master plan? According to NBA and NFL insider Pablo Torre (Pablo Torre Finds Out), Taylor had some of his aides created a 77-point Mean Girls style Burn Book list that he was hoping to present publicly and to the league, to turn everyone against the soon-to-be majority owners.

Then, right before the owners ratified the deal via vote, Glen took over their Zoom call to beg for courtside seats to Wolves games for the next decade, in order for the deal to go through. believed were reasons why the league and public should irrelevant information as to why the new owners weren’t qualified.

.@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 as a 12-year-old negotiating with a lawyer over why he shouldn’t be grounded.

Torre went on to reveal (also in the video above) that, also on Glen’s list was Rodriguez’s interview with Katie Couric nearly two decades ago, in which he denied the steroid use that we all eventually found out he did. But again, none of this has any bearing on their arbitration process.

MN Timberwolves pay Glen Taylor one last favor

When he took over the NBA owners’ Zoom vote, Pablo reports that Taylor was on mute and didn’t know it, then had trouble figuring out how to unmute himself. In fact, Lore and A-Rod had to help him troubleshoot the technological “problem”. But hey, at least he got his same courtside seats out of the deal…

“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, Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez will have a new arena built. You know what won’t be on the terrace? A statue of Glen Taylor. Thanks for saving the team back in 1994, Glen, but don’t let the door hit you on the way out!