{"id":600657,"date":"2026-02-13T10:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/600657\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:28:14","slug":"detroit-pistons-all-star-cade-cunningham-buys-minority-stake-in-hometown-texas-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/600657\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons All-Star Cade Cunningham buys minority stake in hometown Texas Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">DETROIT \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/topic\/Pistons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> two-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/topic\/Pistons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cade Cunningham<\/a> has purchased a minority ownership stake in his hometown Major League Baseball team, the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The news broke on X by ESPN Senior NBA Insider Shams Charania on Thursday (Feb. 12) ahead of All-Star weekend in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Detroit Pistons All-Star and Arlington, Texas native Cade Cunningham has purchased a minority ownership stake of his hometown MLB team, the Texas Rangers, he told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2022042614368022631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Texas native is one of the athlete-investors at Sportsology Capital Partners, which recently completed a minority investment in the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The 24-year-old from Arlington represented the Rangers when he threw out the first pitch inside Globe Life Field during a game against the Baltimore Orioles in July of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On the hardwood, the budding star is averaging 25.3 points, 9.6 assists, and 5.6 rebounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The former No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft, alongside teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/topic\/Jalen_Duren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/topic\/Jalen_Duren\/\">Jalen Duren<\/a> and head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/topic\/J.B._Bickerstaff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">J.B. Bickerstaff<\/a>, will represent the Pistons on Sunday, Feb. 15, inside the Intuite Dome in Inglewood, California, for the 75th NBA All-Star Game at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2013 Detroit Pistons two-time All-Star Cade Cunningham has purchased a minority ownership stake in his hometown Major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3773],"tags":[31909,7,909,296,188,3860,25020,1203,1407,6,297,6289],"class_list":["post-600657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-all-star-weekend","tag-basketball","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroitpistons","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-pistons","tag-texas-rangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116062853832862277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600657","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=600657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}