Fansided · Yesterday
Timberwolves' bold offseason is already paying off big time
The Minnesota Timberwolves' offseason was highly polarizing. They leaned into a perimeter-centric identity by giving up Julius Randle and Naz Reid to land LaMelo Ball. Signing Jonathan Kuminga to fill their subsequent power forward void only added to the controversy.
Honestly, I feel like the detractors overthought it—the Timberwolves sorely needed a high-level secondary creator and playmaker alongside Anthony Edwards. Ball filled that void. As for Kuminga, they needed a starting-level power forward—given the market and their cap constraints, he was the best player they could've signed.