Unlike Rome, it appears that contending basketball teams can be built in a day, if you look West to the Los Angeles Clippers or East to the Brooklyn Nets.
Which can make the marginal moves by Gersson Rosas and the new Wolves front office seem fairly meaningless in the grand scheme of things, and also frustrating for long-time fans of a downtrodden franchise.
But of course those teams were not built in a day; Rather it took them years to get in position to take advantage of the opportunities that were available this summer.