I get it wasn’t with Minnesota, but this is absolutely awesome. Talk about karma for smearing his teammates and franchise. They didn’t need you after all.

In terms of swinging on upside, Suggs is a great gamble to take. Injuries have held him back, but he’s an elite perimeter defender which can help move Jaden off ball to unlock more offensive bandwidth. Why not take a swing on adding another younger player on Ant’s timeline?

Christian Pulisic is absolutely carving Paraguay from the Wing.

It’s fair to question Kyrie’s red flags, but my main pushback to this point is the list is inherently slim pickings to begin with. I’d also point to the advancements in ACL procedures along with the fact that all three of these examples showed signs of decline pre injury. Kyrie is far better than all of these players, and was not showing any signs of decline pre injury and even made the all star game before getting hurt. Thanks to tanking, Kyrie has had significant time to rehab.

Had a great conversation about a few different pathways Minnesota could take on the trade market.

Wemby is becoming unlikable.

Charlotte, Dallas, and Minnesota possess a lot of what each other need.

It’s a very, very short list of players I’d be willing to trade Jaden for.

Jake has talked at length about how much a PG would help this team all season, and what if a more subtle move of simply turning Randle into a Kyrie type could do for the team. Kyrie is an elite shooter, and then you’re replacing Randle with another elite shooter in Naz. You’d likely have enough left over (assuming the 2nd apron is the theoretical salary cap) to use a taxpayer exception on a free agent. Maybe you target a 4 like Yabusele to give you a physical presence. The main point is Kyrie is a connector that can space the floor and provide immense rim pressure on a defense. A player like that allows you to naturally increase Jaden and Naz’s usage, while immediately giving Ant the best spacing he’s had since before Rudy. Not to mention, Kyrie helping to unlock the pick and roll with Rudy will inevitably help fold him into the offense in ways that they’ve lacked the personnel to accomplish for two years. It doesn’t have to particularly be Kyrie, and I know there’s a ton of valid pushback I’ve heard. My rebuttal is that those concerns about Kyrie is why he’s likely so attainable for a modest price tag, and the Wolves are likely stuck with a modest level price tag.

The Solution.

You realize Ja ran Jenkins out of town, right?

I still think the logic behind flexibility from the KAT trade can pan out if they’re able to make the right pivot this summer. If Minnesota whiffs because of a lack of assets and the team takes a step back, there’s no dancing around how bad of a look it will be for this front office and their management of the Ant era. It’s crucial for Tim Connelly to win his next few moves. He’s quickly running out of equity to miss, and a miss right now could spell doom for the Ant era in Minnesota.

Seeing as Julius Randle quit on the team coinciding with KAT breaking through to the finals, this is only human of Ant. Minnesota doesn’t have to build Rome in a day, but the absolutely cannot run it back.

Brunson - too small to be a #1 on a championship team. KAT - he’s not reliable enough as a 5 defensively to be a #2 on a championship team. Now, they’re up 2-0 heading back to Madison Square Garden on the precipice of pulling off a championship for the city of New York.

I mean they’ll be a decent team, but there’s not much precedent for a team to have high level success with an average age over 35. That said, what a marketing dream as an organization to host the send off for two of the three most influential basketball players this century. It would be fun to watch them together, even in their twilight years.

Great, I am happy for him. Doing revisionist history and being angry about how it should be us is useless energy. For the next few days, Let’s Go Knicks!

This is what movies are made of.

Assuming this aggregator is paraphrasing in good faith, Minnesota did telegraph their intentions by saying they feel good about their core 4 of Ant, Jaden, Naz, and Beringer.

It pains me to say this, but everyone is closing the book on the Thunder way too quickly. Presti build a safety valve to help navigate their cap situation with the Dort, iHart, and Kenrich team options. Furthermore you have tradable contracts in Joe and Wiggins who weren’t in the playoff rotation. Lastly, they were missing two key pieces in Ajay Mitchell and Jalen Williams that would’ve loosened the coverage on SGA some. They’ll be right back next year. I don’t believe the cap will start hurting them until next offseason.