The 2020 NBA Trade Deadline is less than a week away, so teams have a last chance to do some business this season. The NBA transfer market heats up as the Minnesota Timberwolves offer up Andrew Wiggins for Golden State Warriors’ D’Angelo Russell, as sportsnet.ca reports:
“The Wolves’ hunt to bring D’Angelo Russell to Minnesota to play with his close friend, Karl-Anthony Towns, is well-established. The Timberwolves are intent on keeping Towns happy lest he start imagining himself under the bright lights of a bigger market, while the Warriors are in no rush to part with Russell while the team trudges through its extended injury situation.
With the Warriors unmotivated to deal Russell, it appears the Wolves are getting more desperate to try to swing a possible trade. According to The Athletic’s Anthony Slater, that extended to offering up Canadian Andrew Wiggins.
“Minnesota has dangled Andrew Wiggins, who is on a similar contract as Russell and fills a greater positional need,” Slater wrote. “But from a Warriors’ perspective, that’s still a questionable talent-for-talent swap. Most around the league view Russell as better than Wiggins. It’s a move only a panicked front office would make.
“But the Warriors aren’t in a panic about Russell. Unless the Wolves unload the vault — something like Robert Covington and Josh Okogie plus a basket of appealing, unprotected picks — it’s wiser for the Warriors to wait until past this deadline on Russell and perhaps well beyond.”
