Everything 2018 Off Season

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Story filed to ESPN: As Minnesota’s front office tells inquiring rivals that team has no plans to trade Jimmy Butler, owner Glen Taylor had a different message at NBA’s Board of Governors meetings: Butler is available and owners/GM’s should contact Taylor himself if necessary.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 21, 2018

Damn lol

That franchise is seriously in disarray. They are this year New York Knicks.

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Butler trade and Thibs' firing coming up?

They really should just trade him though. They don't gain anything trying to force him to stay.

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They need to clean house ASAP with Butler & Thibs and continue to rebuild with Towns & Wiggins.

[golden]

That franchise is seriously in disarray. They are this year New York Knicks.

lol. They tanked perfectly, got ridiculously lucky with two #1 picks and completely effed it up.

[ReubenJRD]

They need to clean house ASAP with Butler & Thibs and continue to rebuild with Towns & Wiggins.

I agree. Things are ugly. I really hope the rest of the league has learned not to mesh the coaching and GM roles together. Keep that seperate.

Minny, give Chauncey Billups a call, lol.

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lol. They tanked perfectly, got ridiculously lucky with two #1 picks and completely effed it up.

Masai calling to Taylor: You need some stability with some level headed veterans and we also going to throw a 2021 first round lottery protected pick. Be smart and take this deal:

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y9o9a58a

[KeonClark]

They need to clean house ASAP with Butler & Thibs and continue to rebuild with Towns & Wiggins.

They need to literally and figuratively get rid of all the bull shit

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lol. They tanked perfectly, got ridiculously lucky with two #1 picks and completely effed it up.

You mean with Towns?, they got Wiggins with the Kevin Love trade.

They really effed up on the Butler trade. Lauri Markkanen might be a franchise star and Kris Dunn wasnt given enough time to develop. Now you got Butler being dick about it before season starts at the worst possible time and this will sink the season and set back the franchise a few years.

[GOLDBLUM]

Wolves giving Sacto a run for their money for garbage franchise work here.

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Wolves giving Sacto a run for their money for garbage franchise work here.

Rob Babcock was recruited from The Wolves to the Raptors (worst GM in Raptors history) so they seem to have a history of hiring narrow minded executives.

[golden]

You mean with Towns?, they got Wiggins with the Kevin Love trade.

They really effed up on the Butler trade. Lauri Markkanen might be a franchise star and Kris Dunn wasnt given enough time to develop. Now you got Butler being dick about it before season starts at the worst possible time and this will sink the season and set back the franchise a few years.

I lumped in 'trading your franchise superstar for a high pick' as a tanking move. They also made a pretty good pick drafting Zach Lavine. Markannen would have been the final piece last year for a very nice starting 5. They could have just let those 5 guys develop together for 4-5 years.

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I lumped in 'trading your franchise superstar for a high pick' as a tanking move. They also made a pretty good pick drafting Zach Lavine. Markannen would have been the final piece last year for a very nice starting 5. They could have just let those 5 guys develop together for 4-5 years.

They were desperate and caved in to Thibs demands of more control and this is the result.

[DanH]

Masai calling to Taylor: You need some stability with some level headed veterans and we also going to throw a 2021 first round lottery protected pick. Be smart and take this deal:

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y9o9a58a

Doesn't even need to call. Masai is at the meetings going on right now. They can talk face to face. Heck, they probably are.

[Truth Teller]

Literally every professional athlete has a hot wife or girlfriend

Relatively speaking... A 10 for normal people might be a 7 for NBA players.

[Truth Teller]

Timberwololves

[inthepaint]

In a hypothetical, completely theoretical exercise (we'd have no way to know this for sure):

Assuming it was known that it was possible to acquire Butler with just veteran role players, whose absence won't really hurt us now or in the future (i.e. no future picks or prospects, aside from maybe Wright in the deal), but it was also known that this would guarantee that neither him (Butler) nor Leonard would re-sign (would convert Leonard to a strict rental from whatever abstract chance there is now that he will re-up)

Who here does it, and who doesn't?