The Milwaukee Bucks announced on Friday that Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is now a minority owner of the team. The announcement was reportedly made after the first quarter of the Bucks’ Game 3 playoff win against the Boston Celtics.
Rodgers watched the game courtside, next to majority owner Wes Edens. The Bucks said Rodgers joined the team as a limited partner.
“I’m a humongous sports fan, especially the NBA. Basketball is my first love actually before football so the opportunity to join the ownership group here in a state that I love, a region that I’m entrenched in and have been for a number of years, a team that I’ve followed and cheered for and attended games at for a long time – to be able to a minority owner now is pretty special,” Rodgers said in an interview with Fox Sports Wisconsin.
Forbes currently values the team at $1.075 billion. Milwaukee finished the season as the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference and led by 23-yeard-old All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Rodgers missed nine games for the Packers last season after breaking the collarbone in his left shoulder in Week 6 against the Minnesota Vikings. Ownership stake in an NBA playoff team might be just the motivation Rodgers needs to get the Packers back to the playoffs next season.
Source: usatoday.com
