Detroit Pistons star Cade Cunningham can now add “team owner” to his resume.
Cunningham purchased a minority stake in Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported. It’s unclear how much of the team’s stake Cunningham purchased.
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Cunningham was born and raised in Arlington, Texas, which has been the home of the Rangers since they relocated from Washington in 1972. Cunningham grew up cheering for Texas teams and even threw out the first pitch at the Rangers game on July 2, 2025. The Rangers have been owned and operated by Rangers Baseball Express since 2011, with Ray C. Davis serving as the team’s chairman and majority owner.
Cunningham isn’t the only active NBA player with a stake in a major sports team, with Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James owning a stake in Fenway Sports Group (owner of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox and Premier League’s Liverpool FC), while Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo owns a stake in Major League Baseball’s Milwaukee Brewers.
Now in his fifth NBA season with the Pistons, Cunningham has been selected to his second consecutive All-Star team and hopes to lead the first-place Pistons back to the NBA Finals for the first time since the 2004-05 season.
This article originally appeared in the Detroit Free Press: Pistons’ Cade Cunningham buys stake in Texas Rangers