For some Timberwolves fans on social media, the team's moves in the first few hours of free agency Friday lacked the punch they were hoping to see. The Wolves didn't use the space they had under the luxury tax to chase a bigger name using the full mid-level exception of just over $12 million.
Instead, they brought in two new players and brought another one back for a combined $27 million over the next two years in Shake Milton, Troy Brown and the returning Nickeil Alexander-Walker.
The Wolves made their biggest splash in free agency the weekend before in reaching an agreement with Naz Reid on a three-year, $42 million deal, and that move had reverberations for what they were able to do once free agency opened — hence the lack of fireworks on Fourth of July weekend.