[NBA Cenetral] The Minnesota Timberwolves are a potential landing spot for Darius Garland, per @AmNotEvan
“A source shared with Right Down Euclid that a dark horse that could try to acquire him is the Minnesota Timberwolves. Since 2018, when Minnesota tried to trade up to select Garland in the 201
by irishace88
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How about waiting until the season is officially over before we fire up the rumor mill?
Nice, but how 👏
With what assets?
Lol Rosas isn’t here and I don’t think Cleveland wants a 3rd big
Garland ain’t all that but I’ll take him..
If he doesn’t like playing with Mitchell why would Edwards be any different? Also we have a different GM now
Eh, pass.
Wasn’t that the 2019 draft?
Counterpoint: No
If the Wolves are trading a big money deal then I don’t think one player is coming back on a big deal. Probably a couple players that they can use going forward or redirect during the off-season.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I believe this offseason will be a step back and reset financially. I don’t think they’re trading for a single player who almost makes $40 million.
Pass. He’s one of those “super physically gifted but not that talented” guys.
Bring em here please
I do not want him if it means giving up pretty much any player we would need to to make this deal work.
Absolutely not
I don’t like it. I’d be wary of anyone from that Cavs team
If we pull a miracle and win this series all my opinions would change so imma wait
He hasn’t been the healthiest player only playing 5 games in college before getting hurt, and has played 59, 54, 68, 69, and 57 games in the NBA.
If this is true then the 2024 nba champs are going to be even stronger next year
Havent seen cavs games. How’s his defense been? I don’t hate it. Conley is fantastic but his age is a question mark.
We could stand to lose Jaden or Naz which I assume we’d need to do. As much as I’d hate to see either go, trading either for Garland could help balance out our roster a bit. Idk I haven’t put much thought into where our roster goes from here tbh.
After this amazing defensive season, I’m not sure how excited I’d be for garland
I fail to see the improvement over Towns. Presumably who we’d have to move.
Garland has been as injury prone as Towns. Underperformed worse than Towns this post season.
He’s not even that much better than a 36 year old Conely. Garland only gots a higher usage rate over Mike for that 7 more PPG. But Mike is still far more efficient.
Garland is just DLo east.. he doesn’t defend well due to his size and he is an extremely inconsistent scorer.
Garland would complement Ant pretty well…
Kat would be the most likely to be traded.
Rudy would make more sense of someone is willing to take him
Need to get a PG from somewhere to replace Conley when he retires. Not sure if I love Garland for that but I’m happy to be proven wrong.
Yes please!
I feel like this is unpopular based on comments, but I kind of like this idea. Not saying Cleveland (more so their fans) would take someone from our roster, but he is a good scorer in the P&R, can spread the floor, can drive, and a good passer.
Also, it’s clear that the right players and coaching staff can influence other players to buy into a defensive identity, which we saw this year. Garland is young and athletic, I wouldn’t write off his defense just yet.
Trading KAT 1-1, nah.
McDaniels and some other pieces? Hell to the yeah. Our team chemistry on offense is ass and lack of playmaking is a big reason why.
And they need quality depth behind and an eventual replacement for Conley.
I know Jaden’s offense hasn’t come along, but are we really sure about trading ab23 year old? I think far too many are just seeing Ant’s development and thinking Jaden’s fallen behind. He’s still so young and he’s usually asked to guard the opponent’s best … that’s a lot for anyone and it doesn’t leave a lot of energy for offense. I know we have to give up something to get something, but I’d rather explore something with Rudy and/or KAT going out and Allen coming back.
Doesn’t play defense for shit. Nah.
I’d absolutely take Garland, but I don’t see a logical path to getting that done
Not sure how he’d fit next to Ant if he didn’t like playing with Mitchell
This seems unlikely.
The most likely option for this to happen is a three way trade with KAT. I’m very pro Garland but I don’t know what the actual price would be.
I like the idea. Garland doesn’t fit well with Mitchell and Clevelands roster construction doesn’t work as is despite the talent they have. Garland’s offensive game would fit a lot better alongside Ant imo, and his defensive issues wouldn’t matter as much on the Wolves.
The issue is, what do the Wolves have that Cleveland wants? Maybe NAW? They don’t need more bigs.
I don’t want to think about anything like this until the season is over.
But personally I’d love Garland on the Wolves pretty much no matter who they have to give up to get him. Obviously Ant being the only untouchable.