As the NBA world reels from the megatrade that sent Damian Lillard from Trail Blazers to the Bucks, the Timberwolves will be opening their training camp this week with media day Thursday.
The Wolves open camp earlier than 28 other teams because they and the Mavericks will be headed to the United Arab Emirates this weekend for a week-long trip on which they will play two exhibition games in Abu Dhabi.
Training camp marked a pivotal moment in the Wolves' season a year ago, in large part because the Wolves never had a cohesive team to work on chemistry in the first year of the Karl-Anthony Towns-Rudy Gobert partnership.