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Did The Wolves Preemptively Push ‘Fast-Forward’ On Their Rebuild?

Every team in the NBA is always in a race against the clock, in one way or another. Some teams want to stretch their window, and others want to speed up their clock to contend sooner. Few teams feel comfortable with their relationship with time, and most feel pressured. Each team’s history, culture, and circumstance dictates its relationship with time.

So when a team trades for a player of Jimmy Butler’s caliber, it is as ostensibly a remark on its feelings about time as it is about the player or the team or its fans.

Every team in the NBA would love to have Butler, and why not?