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Vikergirl · 11-10-2018, 07:17 PM

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/statu...26144?s=19

11-10-2018, 08:40 PM

For who what and huh???

11-10-2018, 09:02 PM

Seems like his value dropped from the Miami deal that fell through. Well, at least the team can move on now.

11-10-2018, 09:29 PM

Good riddance. He has been a whiny baby about this whole situation. He is everything that is wrong with the NBA.

11-10-2018, 10:30 PM

Are the T Wolves considered the Browns of the NBA? I don't watch them (or any basket ball), but it just seems like they're always bad. Hope this works out somehow. Losing your best player doesn't sound like it's going to help them win many games.

11-10-2018, 11:19 PM

Outside of the Bucks, I have very little knowledge of who's who...was this a better trade than 4 #1 picks?

11-11-2018, 12:22 AM

Quote: @Caactorvike said:
Seems like his value dropped from the Miami deal that fell through. Well, at least the team can move on now.

I don't think they really had much choice since he was going to be gone at the end of the season. Best player or not when you are a shit teammate, it's not going to work. When he pissed all over Derrick Rose's big game, you are going to be gone. They won without him. It looks like it was time to move on.

11-11-2018, 01:41 AM

Quote: @"BarrNone55" said:
Outside of the Bucks, I have very little knowledge of who's who...was this a better trade than 4 #1 picks?

Those picks would have to be made every other draft by rule, taking 7 yrs to realize, and not knowing where they would land each year... so who knows?

11-11-2018, 05:04 PM

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Just replace with Target Center...

11-11-2018, 11:31 PM

The final days of the Butler saga, and why it could cost Thibodeau his job

As Tom Thibodeau's plan disintegrated, owner Glen Taylor lost his last remnants of belief in this crumbling regime. Taylor had delivered Thibodeau a long and rich contract as the Minnesota Timberwolves president and coach, control of basketball operations and the trust to be a steward of a franchise forever in disrepair.
Taylor's judgment has been perpetually suspect, from a secret Joe Smith deal that cost Minnesota draft picks to wasting Kevin Garnett's prime to the David Kahn catastrophe. In getting things wrong, Taylor has been spectacular in his mishaps.
In the end, Taylor didn't sign off on a Jimmy Butler trade as much as he surrendered to one of the most embarrassing episodes in franchise history.
Thibodeau sold Taylor on trading a starry young core and a high lottery pick to Chicago for Butler on draft night in 2017, sold him on waiting out Butler's preseason trade demand for two months.
He sold him a strategy of publicly excusing Butler's disruptive behavior, compromising his own credibility within his locker room, because Thibodeau believed he could navigate the dysfunction and win games.
Thibodeau sold Taylor on passing on a strong Miami trade package, because he was sure Pat Riley would come back with a better offer, and the league would chase in a bidding frenzy for Butler.
Taylor kept doubling down, and when he hung up the phone with Philadelphia owner Josh Harris on Saturday morning, Minnesota had lost everything -- the four-time All-Star in his prime, the trade standoff, and ultimately, the trust to stay with Thibodeau and GM Scott Layden beyond this season.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25245...r-saga-nba