The Minnesota Timberwolves are hurtling toward a brick wall. That wall has been built up piece by piece: handing veteran PF/C Karl-Anthony Towns a supermax extension, trading everything that wasn’t nailed down for C Rudy Gobert (but not SF Jaden McDaniels!), the new CBA putting punitive penalties in place for high-spending teams, and most recently the extension for Naz Reid. Soon bricks will be added when Anthony Edwards and McDaniels agree to contract extensions.
Add it all up, and you have a brick wall: the Timberwolves are in line to pay their centers over $90 million next season, and a whopping $110 million in 2024-25 when Towns’ supermax extension kicks in.