The Northwest Division is home to perhaps the most thrilling and most depressing offseason experiments. On the thrilling end of the spectrum, you have the Minnesota Timberwolves making a franchise altering move to acquire Rudy Gobert and concoct this yin and yang big man lineup with the Frenchman and Karl-Anthony Towns. On the depressing end, you have whatever the hell the Portland Trail Blazers are doing and why they think anything they’ve done in the past 12 months could lead to an actual playoff appearance.
Elsewhere, you have two teams that could be leading the tanking battle with the tanktastic Utah Jazz and the generally very bad but maybe getting too good OKC Thunder.