The Minnesota Timberwolves have enjoyed a well-earned summer of excitement following a seismic July that metamorphosed the team back into a potential Western Conference power for the first time in nearly two decades.
After staging a coup that convinced President of Basketball Operations Tim Connelly, one of the league’s most well-respected decision-makers, to abandon his post leading the rival Denver Nuggets, you knew that minority stakeholders Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez weren’t going to sit on the sidelines when another transformational opportunity presented itself.
The Wolves’ braintrust, in full understanding of and agreement on the moment they were in, capitalized on it and acquired a Hall-of-Famer-to-be in All-NBA center Rudy Gobert.