It’s been a season of turmoil for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
It begun less than a week before training camp when All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler requested a trade and subsequently sabotaged the team by taking games off and showing up when he wanted to. It continued when former head coach and president of basketball operations Tom Thibodeau lost complete control of the squad, things got worse when crucial rotational pieces Robert Covington and Tyus Jones succumbed to season-derailing injuries. And it came to a head when general manager Scott Layden failed to make any kind of splash at the trade deadline.