Nearly eight months of speculation surrounding the Minnesota Timberwolves and D’Angelo Russell culminated in what may stand as the biggest deal of the trade deadline. The Wolves and Warriors Thursday agreed upon a deal exchanging Russell for former No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins, a lightly-protected 2021 first-round pick, a 2021 second-round pick, Jacob Evans and Omari Spellman, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
It had been particularly well known in the public sphere by now how badly the Wolves pined for the 23-year-old Russell, who is close friends with the presently-disgruntled Karl-Anthony Towns, and ended up on the Warriors as more of a stopgap option in the first place, acquired from the Nets after Kevin Durant chose to leave for Brooklyn.