Before the Timberwolves dove headfirst into a supersized frontcourt starring Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns, Minnesota evaluated ways to bolster the opposite end of its starting lineup. The Timberolves explored the offseason trade market of point guards, league sources told Yahoo Sports, and particularly Dejounte Murray.
Another one-time All-Star ball-handler, D’Angelo Russell, has held Minnesota’s starting role ever since the Timberwolves sent Andrew Wiggins plus the first-round pick that became Jonathan Kuminga to Golden State in a package for Russell at the 2020 trade deadline. A 2019 sign-and-trade first delivered Russell to the Warriors from the Nets, following a 2018 deal that shipped Russell from the Los Angeles Lakers to Brooklyn.
Minnesota would be wise to move Russell now if the team doesn’t intend to re-sign him via Bird rights at season’s end. Free agents have individual cap holds, or salary placeholders, to set the upper limit of what their incumbent teams can re-sign that player for. But if Russell were to walk on the open market, Minnesota would not inherit his $31.3 million salary in open cap space.
Russell has certainly felt spurned by the NBA’s transaction tumult in the past. Following the 2018-19 season, in which he became an All-Star with Brooklyn, the guard noticeably wore Ohio State gear to Nets facilities during spring workouts after he’d learned of Brooklyn’s impending pursuit of Kyrie Irving that summer, even sharing sentiments of betrayal to Nets coaches.
As part of a response to how he is currently helping push fellow Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards, Russell said: “I’m an Alpha as well, you know what I mean? And I feel like I’m better than a lot of shooting guards and I’m better than a lot of point guards.”
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