{"id":12564,"date":"2025-07-15T21:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T21:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12564\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T21:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T21:20:04","slug":"alex-rodriguez-opens-up-about-ownership-plans-for-minnesota-lynx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12564\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Rodriguez Opens Up About Ownership Plans for Minnesota Lynx"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Rodriguez Opens Up About Ownership Plans for Minnesota Lynx<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With his ownership team’s purchase of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves, Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore also will have their hands involved in the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx<\/a>. Rodriguez, who made a name for himself in the MLB world, has been involved in getting him and Lore in position to become owners of both pro sports organizations.<\/p>\n

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While Rodriguez might see a need to have more of a hands-on approach with the Timberwolves, that’s not the case with the Lynx. The Timberwolves are still seeking their first NBA title while the Lynx have racked up four WNBA crowns with head coach Cheryl Reeve at the helm.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, in an interview with The Athletic<\/a>, talked about plans and strategy for running the Lynx operations. He and Lore have been owners-in-waiting for a period of time. Now, the shackles have been taken off of them, so to speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cCheryl\u2019s done an incredible job,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cI mean, she\u2019s really built a dynasty there. So our job is to give her budgets and let her run as fast as she can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Getting more fans interested in Lynx, Timberwolves at same time might deserve focus from Rodriguez, Lore<\/p>\n

One area of focus that Rodriguez and Lore might look at is improving overlap attention between Timberwolves and Lynx fans. According to The Athletic story, there’s only a nine percent overlap in following how both teams are performing on the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the W, it\u2019s been running full speed ahead,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cSo our job is to really kind of just get out of the way. Then the business is gonna have a lot more of our hands.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re gonna roll up our sleeves, hire a CEO, bring in a person that Marc and I feel has the same capability as (Timberwolves president of basketball operations) Tim (Connelly), so we can copy and paste what we\u2019ve done in basketball and do it in business, and then we should be off to the races.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It’s been a banner season for the Lynx, who are 19-4 at this time. Reeve keeps pushing the right buttons for her team and Napheesa Collier is in position to pick up a WNBA MVP award at season’s end. When looking at the WNBA franchise at this point, it’s hard to find too many weaknesses on the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very excited about this year right now, where we have an opportunity to win a title,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cNapheesa Collier is a front-runner to be MVP, and we have a fan base that\u2019s been embedded there for years and years with four titles. Cheryl has been there for about 16 years, and she\u2019s one of one. She\u2019s a Hall of Famer. She\u2019s a proven winner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodriguez and Lore don’t expect to be sitting on their hands with the Lynx. They’ll look to make sure, as owners, that the team has what it needs to compete now and into the future.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 15, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Rodriguez Opens Up About Ownership Plans for Minnesota Lynx originally appeared on Athlon Sports. With his ownership…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[12306,5949,5951,11951,1077,3250,99,3251,434],"class_list":["post-12564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alex-rodriguez","tag-cheryl-reeve","tag-marc-lore","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-sports","tag-the-lynx","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}