Let’s just get this out of the way right off the bat.
Yes, the Minnesota Timberwolves vastly overpaid in their efforts to bring three-time All-Star Rudy Gobert to Minneapolis. There’s just no other way to put it, as the draft compensation alone saw an alarming amount of future assets go out the door. This is generally the type of all-in move that teams make when they’re one move away from a title, not coming off of a season that culminated in a seventh-seed.
So, yeah, the “value” is bad, but I don’t want that to completely overshadow what they’ve done here from an on-court perspective.