"Carpe Diem Tim" is becoming the most interesting man in Minnesota.
Tim Connelly, the Timberwolves President of Basketball Operations, isn't pushing all of his chips to the center of the table — he's buying the table and repurposing it for roulette.
Connelly has run three drafts for the Wolves, and has made trades in each, one of which set up his megadeal for center Rudy Gobert.
For Connelly, impatience is a virtue.
He took over a team that had made the playoffs and immediately reconstructed it. He took his team to the Western Conference finals, then entered an offseason in which he would be able to do little maneuvering because of the salary cap and luxury tax.