After months of legal wrangling, Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore are set to become majority owners of the Timberwolves and Lynx. A three-member arbitration panel ruled longtime owner Glen Taylor did not have the right last year to cancel a pending sale of 40% of his ownership stake to Lore and Rodriguez.

The ownership transfer of the Minnesota Timberwolves must continue as originally planned, after a three-person arbitration panel ruled 2-1 that controlling owner Glen Taylor must cede control of the NBA club to partners Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez in the disputed final phase of the $1.

A three-person panel ruled in favor of Lore and Rodriguez, setting them up to take full control of Minnesota's NBA and WNBA teams.