While the 2022 preseason technically ended for the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night, the team’s front office was working on the weekend like usual, starting Saturday morning by announcing they had waived three players before later in the day announcing that they had then signed three new players.
NEWS: The @Timberwolves today announced the team has signed Matt Lewis, Emmanuel Mudiay and Phillip Wheeler.
Full release:https://t.co/N8WGnwLJWl— Timberwolves PR (@Twolves_PR) October 15, 2022Ironically, the team THEN announced an hour later that they had cut the same three players they just signed, but that was for creative transactional purposes:
For those scoring at home, moves like this (signing and then immediately waiving a player) are designed so that the team can then essentially re-sign the player(s) to their G-League team, which in this case is obviously the Iowa Wolves.