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Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is wading into a bitter battle for control of the National Basketball Association’s Minnesota Timberwolves by expanding his ownership stake in the sport and pledging generous support to the franchise.

Bloomberg joins a group of minority owners of the Wolves, including e-commerce entrepreneur Marc Lore and former baseball star Alex Rodriguez, a spokesman for the two said. Lore and Rodriguez are feuding with Wolves majority owner Glen Taylor over control of the team and its sister franchise, the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx, for which they signed a $1.5 billion purchase agreement through 2021 with Taylor.

The exact amount of Bloomberg’s share could not be immediately determined. At the beginning of the year, he joined a group led by Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein to take over the Baltimore Orioles baseball team for $1.73 billion.

A spokesman for the Timberwolves declined to comment and a spokesman for Taylor did not immediately respond to a request for comment. News of Bloomberg’s connection to Lore and Rodriguez was previously reported by The Athletic.

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