Great deal for Minny comparatively. They get to keep Bennett or trade him for more assets. A first for Young was good enough, even though it's pretty foolish of the Wolves to even acquire him.
I wouldn't be surprised to see both Shved and Mbah a Moute waived now or at least after the trade deadline. Both guys can help a team. The Philly tank continues.
Also, this is a strong sign the league is not going to block the Love trade.
league needs to do something about clowns who continue to get top5picks consecutive years
Shameless tanking for Philly again. At least the previously reported deal, including Bennett, was somewhat more basketball oriented. You could have thought they'd want to try and develop him for a year and see where he's at as a player.
On a side note, will their players be the most highly paid rookies, considering they're unlikely to meet the salary cap bottom?
Man how are the Cavs this ing re ed. They're getting fleeced by ing Flip Saunders.
Who even knows how good Wiggins will be at this point. Too early to make any kind of judgments really
Trading for Young is foolish, since they'll either have to overpay to re-sign him (and if they do, they'll prevent Bennett from getting significant minutes going forward; though this season should largely determine whether he'll ever be worthy of such minutes) or they'll lose him in a season and have given a 1st away in the process.
Nonetheless, the overall haul is the best collection of assets I can ever remember seeing for a player of Love's stature. The Anthony one is seemingly the measuring stick, but there was no star potential in that.
LOL, no . They're trading two guys with tons of question marks for a top 5 player. People are acting like they're trading a rookie Anthony Davis. Could you imagine people's reactions if it was a couple of years ago and the picks were Derrick Williams or Thomas Robinson? Everyone loved them too.
Wolves will be a better team next season than they were the past season, a legit compe or for the 8th seed imho. At least they replaced a stat-padder with a real leader in Wiggins.
The Wolves are stock-piling talent. They need to tank now (which is why trading for Young is stupid in premise as well as in practice). Their best chance is to land some elite talent in the draft that allows them to trade some of their other young players for another star.
The Wolves are the clear winners of this trade. They were going to lose Love at the end of the upcoming season anyway and they manage to get the last 2 years #1 picks and a proven power forward and only having to give up Love, Shved, Luc, and Miami's 2015 1st rounder. The Wolves now have a promising young team.
It doesn't matter how good Wiggins is, Love is leaving the Timberwolves no matter what at the end of the season. (and probably plans on being a free agent regardless of where he goes for contract negotiating purposes)
The Wolves have zero leverage and are still pulling this off. That's absurd.
Cavs are contenders now. If they wait till the off season they waste a year of lebron's prime. Plus if Wiggins sucks what exactly would the Wolves have pulled off?
If Minny develops the talent they have, they're going to be a very, very good team soon.
This is Minny we talking about, it's just not happening
Like they did with Derrick Williams, Wesley Johnson, Johnny Flynn, and Shabazz Muhammad? Minnesota is where promising young careers get stillborn tbh.
To be sure, but you never know. Stranger things have happened (ok not really but still).
Wiggins is a damn good prospect. you can't really predict a player busting.
Man, I think I heard the biggest re in the history of radio a few minutes ago. I had Ticket760 on and this idiot from a piece of site called Hoopscritic.com was raving about how Wiggins was the best prospect since Kevin Durant.
Better prospect than Anthony Davis? Or Gangster Disciple?
They were contenders even without Love. The Cavs were contenders with Lebron and a bag of , you think they're not contenders with Lebron, Kyrie and a couple 1st overall picks?
I don't give a about a year of Lebron's prime if I'm the Cavs. The odds stack up better for multiple championships if you DONT mortgage your future to let Lebron play GM. Do the math yourself, you'd have to think Wiggins and Bennett are 100% busts to think they've got a better chance at winning multiple championships with Love for one year and no one in the future vs Wiggins/Bennett this year and Love/Wiggins in the future.
Oh and Wiggins is never going to "suck." At worst his floor is very capable defender and great transition athlete. Even if all he does is learn to shoot 3s and adds nothing else to his game, that's a fantastic championship contender role player.
you could argue his floor is wes johnson with a little more hops, not that i see that happening
It'd be a bad argument
Why are people thinking the Cavs could have signed Love next off-season? They couldn't. That's why they had to trade for him.
well, when talking about floors, as opposed to projections, one can't really be sure
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