Timberwolves season ticket renewal notices normally go out to fans around the middle of January, which this year would have been during the early stages of what grew to be the team’s second double-digit losing streak since the start of December.
With optimism in short supply, Wolves Chief Operating Officer Ryan Tanke and others on the business side consulted with the basketball operations side and decided to push those renewal pleas into February — after the trade deadline. No promises were made, but President of Basketball Operations Gersson Rosas had pledged publicly to be aggressive in hopes of jump-starting the latest in the organization’s countless rebuilds.