The star player demands a trade. The coach gets booed at home in a preseason game. The rest of the team looks either distracted or uninspired. And the entire operation remains in limbo eight days before the opener.
Imagine, some poor soul has to market this.
A guy selling sand in the desert would have better luck than those charged with drumming up excitement for the Timberwolves season under current conditions.
Seriously, what is their sales pitch at this point? “Timberwolves basketball … at least David Kahn is gone!”
Butler has flipped the organization upside down with his trade demand.