When the Minnesota Timberwolves sent four of its major minute-getters to the Utah Jazz in the Rudy Gobert trade, the implication became a formality that there would need to be players that had to step up that previously were in and out of the rotation on the 46-win 2021-22 squad.
Jaylen Nowell headlined that group.
“The internal development of Ant, Jaden, Jaylen, will be the single biggest driver of how far we can go next year”, Wolves bench boss Chris Finch said after Gobert’s introductory press conference.
“We saw in short stints what he was able to do”, he went on.