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How many Timberwolves Summer League players are future contributors?

Unless something dramatic happens in the coming months of what should otherwise be a quiet rest of the offseason, the Timberwolves will enter next year returning the top seven rotation players from a 56-win, Western Conference final playoff team.

The starting lineup in this scenario is obvious: Anthony Edwards, Mike Conley Jr., Jaden McDaniels, Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert. Then there is the NBA's official Sixth Man of the Year (Naz Reid) and unofficial seventh man of the year (Nickeil Alexander-Walker).

It's a near-certainty that all seven of those players won't play the full 82-game NBA schedule, but this much is true when they are healthy: Most of the rotation is already set before camp even starts.