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in participation may be. Welcome to the Athletic MBA Show, one day through on the Athletic

Podcast Network. Welcome to the Athletic MBA Show, ready? Set, Vegas.

We'll see you think about gambling. 11 days of basketball in the desert

place. Welcome to the Daily Ding here on the Athletic MBA Show. I am Jared Weiss,

Celtics reporter for the Athletic, and I am joined by the man the myth legend John

Krasinski, the wolves beat writer for the Athletic. He is the beat in Minnesota, and he

has been on top of everything going on there, and there has been a lot going on. So let's

start with the main thing, which is the Rudy Go Bear Trade, and the Rudy Go Bear Trade.

I feel like the context becomes even more interesting with the Kevin Durant sweepstakes

dragging on, where they, from everything I'm hearing, Brooklyn's been asking for like

14 star players and 25 picks because the Go Bear Package was so big. So I guess to understand

to understand the modern trade market, we have to understand why Minnesota did the Rudy

Go Bear Trade the way they did. So can you just, I guess, walk us through why the franchise

is willing to dive in so strongly for a player that is a relatively polarizing star, and

what Tim Connelly's addition to the front office has to do with that?

Yeah, Jared. I think it kind of all speaks to a sort of newfound aggressiveness from

the Timber wolves, both with Tim Connelly, but also with the new ownership that's come

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