Wolves Hope To Include Gorgui Dieng In Jimmy Butler Trade

[inquisitive]

Nets, Clippers, and Knicks will wait till he gets to free agency. They won't have to give up assets. All other teams will be a rental if they make a trade for him, thus Wolves won't get much.

[bockingknickers]

Jimmy holds more cards here than the Timberwolves think he does. As good as he is, he is somewhat injury prone, 29, and not a great locker room guy as he doesn’t seem to have patience for younger players. Not to mention he’s a free agent who will only sign with either the Nets, Knicks, or Clippers. That being said, I honestly think the Knicks might be the best suitor rn for both teams to take Butler and Gieng. His value isn’t as high as they Wolves think and ultimately they will likely get less back for him than the Pacers expected to get when they traded George to the Thunder. Knicks can give them a good 26 year old shooter with Hardaway Jr. who averaged 17 pts last year, Courtney Lee who’d be a good off the bench two way player and locker room guy to help mentor the younger guys, a young quick uptempo athletic pg with Emmanuel Mudiay who can get better with good coaching, an unprotected first rounder for 2020, and an unprotected second rounder for 2019. They can flip Jones to Phoenix who’s interested in him for one of their young stretch bigs maybe Bender and potentially a pick which will also make room for Mudiay as the backup pg. Meanwhile, the Knicks offload 2 bad contracts which the Timberwolves should be okay with inheriting considering no big free agent will want to play there anyway and they won’t have to pay Butler a max now, they gain a two way star that fits the New York style of basketball, and a young center/pf who could be inserted either behind Kanter while Robinson develops or at the power forward for while Porzingis is out and Vonleh can be the backup. Dieng plays more defense than Kanter and plays better at his natural position center so assuming Robinson really develops into a starting caliber center, they won’t have to pay Enes and can let him walk and have Dieng as the backup behind Mitchell for a more defense and rebounding front court. I’m sure Wolves fans won’t like this deal but they’re offloading Butler who as I said isn’t as valuable as they think he is for reasons listed earlier and Dieng’s contract and make themselves either good enough to make the bottom of the playoffs again with better chemistry and ball movement or a late lottery team that can draft a good young prospect to help restock their young depth which they gave a lot of away to get Butler in the first place. If Knicks fans want him they’re not gonna get him in free agency he made it clear the Clippers are his number 1 choice but he will resign with the Knicks assuming they trade for him. They don’t HAVE to do this I’d honestly prefer waiting it out a year and going after Beal from that dysfunctional Wizards team the next free agency but Butler does make sense for this group in some facets so this would be the best possible exchange for both teams assuming they decided to make one even though the Knicks probably have a better option just passing on him.

Mudiay is terrible, was outplayed by burke, Frankie and jack.

[ChokeFasncists]

Nets, Clippers, and Knicks will wait till he gets to free agency. They won't have to give up assets. All other teams will be a rental if they make a trade for him, thus Wolves won't get much.

Yea, that's why I think they won't get guys like LeVert or ABrad, more likely DLo or Gallo.