{"id":599707,"date":"2026-02-12T22:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/599707\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:47:44","slug":"detroit-pistons-star-buys-stake-in-mlb-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/599707\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons star buys stake in MLB franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Pistons<\/a> star Cade Cunningham now gets to add “team owner” to his resume.<\/p>\n

Cunningham has purchased a minority stake in MLB’s Texas Rangers<\/a>, as reported by ESPN’s Shams Charania<\/a>. It was not clear how big of a stake in the team Cunningham has bought.<\/p>\n

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Born and raised in Arlington, Texas \u2013 home of the Rangers franchise since it relocated from Washington in 1972 \u2013 Cunningham grew up rooting for Texas teams and even threw out the first pitch<\/a> at a Rangers game on July 2, 2025. The Rangers have been owned and operated by Rangers Baseball Express since 2011, with Ray C. Davis<\/a> serving as the team’s chairman and majority owner.<\/p>\n

Cunningham isn’t the only active NBA player with a stake in a major sports team, with Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> forward LeBron James owning a stake in Fenway Sports Group (owner of MLB’s Boston Red Sox and the EPL’s Liverpool FC) and Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> forward Giannis Antetoukounmpo owning a stake in MLB’s Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now in his fifth NBA season with the Pistons, Cunningham has made his second-straight All-Star Team and is looking to lead the first-place Pistons back to the NBA Finals for the first time since the 2004-05 season.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Pistons’ Cade Cunningham buys stake in Texas Rangers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons star Cade Cunningham now gets to add “team owner” to his resume. Cunningham has purchased a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3773],"tags":[12179,7,7286,909,296,188,3860,107,185,150,6234,121,80065,1203,6,297,12451,80067,567,2098,6289,80066,682],"class_list":["post-599707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-arlington","tag-basketball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroitpistons","tag-giannis","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-minority-stake","tag-mlb","tag-nba","tag-pistons","tag-rangers","tag-ray-c-davis","tag-shams-charania","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-the-rangers","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116060099072248444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}