https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/page/24/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-preseason-guide-naz-reid-r26034/Naz Reid is Gersson Rosas’ first lottery ticket. The new president of basketball operations signed the undrafted big man not on what Reid was as a college player but as what he has the potential to become. Standing 6’8.75″ (without shoes), weighing 256 pounds and sporting a 7’3.25″ wingspan, Reid...26034Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:00:17 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-preseason-guide-jordan-bell-r26033/It’s hard to poke holes in the Jordan Bell signing. With Taj Gibson, Dario Saric and Anthony Tolliver no longer in the picture, there was a definitive need to shore up the frontcourt with players who fit the style of play these new Wolves want to play with. If playing a grab-and-go, up-tempo offen...26033Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:00:32 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-preseason-guide-noah-vonleh-r26032/Signing Noah Vonleh to a one-year, $2 million contract may not seem like a big deal. But standing 6-foot-8 (without shoes), weighing 247 pounds and owning a 7’4.25″ wingspan, physically, Vonleh is the biggest player the Timberwolves added in this summer’s free agency process. With the departure of...26032Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:00:31 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-preseason-guide-gorgui-dieng-r26031/The relationship between two numbers have come to define Gorgui Dieng: minutes played and salary. During the 2017-18 season, Dieng played 16.9 minutes per game (in 79 total games) while earning $14.1 million in salary. Then in 2018-19, the minutes-to-dollars-earned ratio dipped below 1.0 when Dien...26031Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:00:28 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-preseason-guide-karl-anthony-towns-r26029/It’s go time for Karl-Anthony Towns. Yeah, yeah — he’s been going for four years now. But still, the time for KAT to show that there is even another gear is now. The team bonding in the Bahamas is great and all; we all know, according to Instagram, that the Wolves won the offseason. But if they ar...26029Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:00:26 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/what-to-expect-from-jake-layman-jordan-bell-noah-vonleh-and-the-timberwolves-new-forwards-r26027/The Minnesota Timberwolves’ laundry list of power forwards became a bit of a running joke throughout the 2018-19 season. As the NBA continues to modernize and the possibilities at a roster’s “four” spot broaden, the Wolves hoarded big men who didn’t have the girth to defend an opponent’s center no...26027Tue, 24 Sep 2019 08:57:10 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/what-to-expect-from-shabazz-napier-jarrett-culver-and-the-timberwolves-new-guards-r26026/Every NBA team has 19,680 minutes of playing time — plus instances of overtime — to allocate throughout its roster each season: five players are on the court at a time, games are 48 minutes a piece, 82 matchups in total. 19,680 minutes. Well, the Minnesota Timberwolves enter their 2019-20 campaig...26026Mon, 23 Sep 2019 08:22:50 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/who-will-start-for-the-timberwolves-r26024/“The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer.” To me, that’s a quote about hoops. It makes sense, right? Put in the work in the summer and you’ll be better when the season rolls around in the winter. Simple enough. Of course, that’s not what Henry Clay (a 19th-centu...26024Tue, 27 Aug 2019 07:00:25 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-minnesota-timberwolves-dangelo-russell-contingency-plan-r26021/For what has shaped up to be a multitude of perhaps unforeseen reasons, pursuing D’Angelo Russell early and often this summer was the smartest thing Gersson Rosas could have done. The pursuit was one of two things: brilliance or a brilliant stroke of luck. Either Rosas and his new front office b...26021Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:55:46 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/culver-nowell-and-reid-offer-a-glimpse-into-rosas-and-saunders-vision-for-the-timberwolves-r26020/Jarrett Culver beamed as Minnesota Timberwolves president Gersson Rosas sat next to him, describing the player he traded up to select at No. 6 in this year’s draft. In front of him sat admiring young basketball players from the Conway Community Center in St. Paul. The son of a preacher in Lubbock,...26020Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:06:11 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/who-the-minnesota-timberwolves-are-becoming-r26018/When Gersson Rosas took the stage at his introductory press conference, he declared “this is not going to be Houston North.” Prematurely, this notion crushed the dreams of many in the fanbase that the Minnesota Timberwolves would finally shed their archaic ways and embrace the modern NBA. The n...26018Tue, 16 Jul 2019 06:00:46 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/%E2%80%98im-not-a-lazy-guy-naz-reids-fight-to-prove-himself-meets-opportunity-in-minnesota-r26016/The NBA’s Summer League is an opportunity. For top draft picks, Las Vegas provides a platform to showcase one’s skillset against a level of competition higher than the NCAA. For many other players, Summer League is simply an opportunity to catch the eye of a scout. But there is also another type o...26016Mon, 22 Jul 2019 06:17:12 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-yin-and-yang-of-the-timberwolves-tyus-jones-decision-r26015/Before the NBA’s free agency wheels really began turning, the expected salary for a free agent backup point guard was somewhere around $6 million annually. Along those lines, and according to a source, Tyus Jones entered the summer hoping to land a deal that would pay him $25 million over four yea...26015Wed, 10 Jul 2019 04:16:51 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/if-the-timberwolves-are-%E2%80%98not-done-making-moves-what-does-that-mean-r26014/LAS VEGAS — This was always going to be a wild summer for the NBA at-large. But in Minnesota, it was hard to track a path for the Timberwolves getting into the fray. Even though nearly half of the roster was set to become a free agent this summer, the Wolves’ books were still stuffed — brimming ov...26014Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:35:38 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/loading-error-dangelo-russell-chooses-warriors-over-timberwolves-r26012/For the Minnesota Timberwolves to land D’Angelo Russell, everything had to break right. Buried in $62.7 million of salary dedicated to just Andrew Wiggins, Jeff Teague and Gorgui Dieng next season, Gersson Rosas wasn’t going to have to pull a cat of his hat to land Russell but he was going to need...26012Mon, 01 Jul 2019 01:48:01 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/with-jarrett-culver-and-without-dario-saric-the-timberwolves-are-changing-r26008/The night started with the Minnesota Timberwolves in discussions with the New Orleans Pelicans to acquire the No. 4 pick in Thursday evening’s draft. There was a bidding war for that pick; one that ultimately saw the Atlanta Hawks come out victorious. New Orleans was demanding the Wolves include R...26008Fri, 21 Jun 2019 04:46:16 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-timberwolves-opportunity-cost-of-trading-up-r26007/So…why exactly are the Timberwolves trying to trade up for the fourth pick? https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1141515538398683136 On the surface, it makes some sense. Even beyond the notion that trading up is sexy, and that making a splashy move would go a long way in the public opinion of...26007Thu, 20 Jun 2019 07:22:10 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/why-patrick-beverley-would-make-sense-on-the-timberwolves-r26002/The Minnesota Timberwolves need a lot more, and they have limited resources to address those needs this summer. Almost any assessment of the incumbent pieces on the roster suggests there are three types of players that they simply own too little stock in: defenders who can excel in execution withi...26002Mon, 17 Jun 2019 08:46:15 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/can-dangelo-russell-be-part-of-gersson-rosas-plan-for-%E2%80%98aggression-r26000/The Minnesota Timberwolves popping up in a report that details interest in the services of restricted free agent point guard D’Angelo Russell is a splash. But in the deconstruction of what the franchise’s financial reality is and through the vision Gersson Rosas has laid out for the team he now...26000Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:33:34 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/no-all-nba-for-karl-anthony-towns-means-financial-flexibility-for-timberwolves-r25997/Nearly $32 million laid in the balance for Karl-Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves prior to Thursday afternoon. If Towns was named to one of the league’s three All-NBA teams, his contract extension — set to commence this fall — would escalate from five years, $158.1 million up to five ye...25997Thu, 23 May 2019 21:07:36 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/gersson-rosas-believes-in-ryan-saunders-r25994/Ryan Saunders was munching on a bag of potato chips Friday afternoon at the NBA’s pre-Draft combine in Chicago. Two seats to Saunders’ left sat Larry Bird and a few seats further down the way to his right sat Rick Carlisle, Frank Vogel, Tim Hardaway, David Griffin and Peja Stojakovic, along with h...25994Tue, 21 May 2019 17:29:54 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/brandon-clarke-is-one-path-the-minnesota-timberwolves-should-consider-r25993/CHICAGO — Nervously rubbing kneecaps that had just posted a 40.5-inch vertical leap, Brandon Clarke squeezed out a smile out of the left side of his mouth as he said, “I would love playing with KAT.” An elder statesmen at this year’s NBA combine in Chicago, the 22-year-old from Gonzaga University...25993Sat, 18 May 2019 08:24:48 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/gersson-rosas-minnesota-timberwolves-solution-working-from-the-%E2%80%98inside-out-r25989/When Daryl Morey was hired by the Houston Rockets in 2006, he inherited a 26-year-old Gersson Rosas onto his basketball operations staff. Rosas had already worked in the Rockets organization for three years as both a video coordinator and personnel scout prior to then-Rockets owner Leslie Alexan...25989Tue, 07 May 2019 07:00:06 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-task-at-hand-for-gersson-rosas-and-his-minnesota-timberwolves-r25986/Gersson Rosas is not Tom Thibodeau. For the Minnesota Timberwolves fanbase, that really feels like a win. But for the Minnesota Timberwolves franchise, the process of hiring Rosas was not all that different than hiring Thibodeau. Oddly, that’s a win too. The thrust of the thesis of hiring Rosas...25986Thu, 02 May 2019 01:07:30 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-timberwolves-financial-landscape-after-the-jeff-teague-decision-r25979/Jeff Teague opting in for his $19 million player option in the 2019-20 season is the first domino tipping over in what will be a Minnesota Timberwolves offseason defined by how the front office manages the team’s minimal financial flexibility. Now, between just eight guaranteed contracts, the Wolv...25979Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:31:16 +0000