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Originally Posted by okcchief
I like the Golden State one for the Wolves. Hate the Bulls and Lakers ones.
It's definitely time for both parties to move on. No playoff appearances in 6 years. It's not working for anyone involved.
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Ideally we'd be trading Love to a team with some high draft picks the next couple of years, but I don't see many teams on that list that would satisfy Love's "I want to win now" tantrum he's throwing.
In any case, yeah, I definitely think both parties needed to move on regardless of whether Love wanted to stay in Minnesota or not. The Wolves aren't going to get anything in a trade worth the top PF in the NBA, but they need to do another rebuild. When they were really sucking eggs from 2006-2011, they simply didn't take advantage of the situation. They could have ended up with a Thunder-like team, but whiffing on Randy Foye, Johnny Flynn, Wes Johnson, and Derrick Williams made them terrible enough to always prevent Love from getting the job done.
Barring a miraculous infusion of talent off the bench, this was possibly about as good as the Wolves could get with Love. No top free agents would be looking their direction, and I doubt the front office would be able to afford any of them. In the past two seasons when they were trying to load up to help Love get to the playoffs, they were constantly passed on by their top choices in free agency. Too many second choices rounded out the base of this starting team, and that's the killer.
If we can get a haul of draft picks and suck for another year or two, I think we'll end up being a team with a much higher potential than if we had kept Love on the team, as weird as that sounds.