Report: MN Timberwolves Aren’t Done
The Minnesota Timberwolves made one of the biggest splashes of the NBA offseason on Thursday, and certainly the most surprising, when they sent Naz Reid + a bevy of picks and pick swaps to Charlotte in exchange for the extremely talented and equally controversial point guard, LaMelo Ball.
That early morning blockbuster settled all the questions surround what the core of Minnesota’s roster will look like going forward. However, combined with the salary dump of Julius Randle suddenly leaves a massive hole in the Wolves front court next to Rudy Gobert.
Minnesota Timberwolves not done adding talent
While president of basketball operations Tim Connelly doesn’t have ammo left for another blockbuster move, the Wolves do have room under the first apron and additional ways to create a bit more, if needed.
And according to Jon Krawczynski (The Athletic), the Minnesota Timberwolves indeed have plans to shuffle things up even more, and are still active in talks with other teams to add more frontcourt talent to a roster that suddenly needs it pretty desperately. There’s one caveat, apparently. Donte DiVincenzo is still off the table.
The Wolves do still have other moves in the works. They need a power forward and they need more shooting. I am told that they are not trading Donte DiVincenzo. The work continues.
— Jon Krawczynski (@JonKrawczynski) June 25, 2026
Rudy Gobert is the only veteran big man remaining on a Minnesota Timberwolves roster that was once seen as the biggest team in the league. He doesn’t require touches on offense and immediately makes your defense top-15.
But expecting Joan Beringer to step in as a starting big man, after getting zero legitimate minutes one season ago isn’t something you normally see from a team with NBA Finals aspirations.
Avenues for Connelly to make frontcourt additions
Connelly has a couple of different routes to add more frontcourt help. If he goes the free agency route, he has the full mid-level exception at his disposal, which would give Minnesota $15 million to go spend on someone to fill their big man void.
They’d have to clear a bit more space ($4+ million) to utilize the full MLE, since it would lock them under the first apron of the luxury tax. But that would be easy — (example) waiving Mouhamadou Gueye ($2.4 million savings) and letting restricted free agent Enrique Freeman walk ($2.2 million savings).
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The other option would be another trade. If someone needs to shed some salary by unloading a decently talented big man, Minnesota would be the first team to call.
But no matter how he gets it done, there’s no doubt Connelly is still looking to add starting-caliber frontcourt talent before he calls it an offseason.
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