The strangest NBA deadline in some time came and went Thursday. Strange in that I didn't plead for the Timberwolves to take a stick of dynamite, detonate the roster and start over. That's my usual sane reaction on trade deadline day.
This one struck a different tone. The Wolves stood pat, did nothing, kept the roster intact, and that is perfectly … fine? Yes, fine. For now.
Good call on keeping the dynamite under lock and key.
The Wolves desperately need another big man to protect the rim, but they have shown enough stretches of quality basketball to give this roster an opportunity to play the season out and then do accounting at the end.