MIN and SAC Offseasons

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Wolves just had a dream season, but now must pay to keep this group together, and somehow get better. What will it cost ownership money-wise, and what are the restrictions if they do not avoid the dreaded Second Apron? Could they actually trade Karl-Anthony Towns, and would it make sense to do so as anything other than a money-saving move? The Kings have Mike Brown back in the fold after some very public negotiations, but they are limited in how much they can pay Malik Monk. What are their options for improving, both if they can and can’t retain Monk?

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0:00.0	All right, welcome on to a Sunday Night Edition of Dun.
0:04.1	Thanks so much for joining us here on YouTube.
0:06.8	If you haven't yet, please give us a subscribe or a like,
0:09.9	and of course some comments.
0:11.5	We'll take a few of those as well as we're going
0:13.6	through here discussing the off-season first for the Minnesota Timberwolves Danny and
0:19.2	we were talking just before we came on the air about now that Anthony Edwards has gotten his 30%
0:26.2	max contract. Carl Anthony Towns is kicking in at 35% of the salary cap so they will
0:31.5	be as it stands now quite expensive next season.
0:35.5	Quite expensive indeed and the big number for the second apron as things stand right now with
0:40.4	the estimate is roughly 189.5 million that is the second
0:44.8	apron threshold as of right now without a full roster the Minnesota
0:49.2	cymb wolves are around 195 million so they are over the second apron. That includes nothing for Monte
0:55.6	Morris, Kyle Anderson, Gerber McLaughlin. It does include their draft pick. So I think that's 11 players that it would have under roster.
1:04.0	So as currently constructed, the Minnesota J
1:08.0	Jimberwolves would be remarkably expensive for the 2024-25 season.
1:11.6	And you and I, I I mean we've talked about this a lot over the
1:15.6	course of time the financial cataclysm that's coming and I wrote a piece for
1:19.2	the athletic talking about the ownership dynamic that actually came out on Sunday and you know I didn't know no new
1:24.3	reporting but basically my my kind of my thesis with this is we haven't seen like this is a
1:31.6	gigantic jump in a team's expenditures, but this is the type of team
1:37.2	that you spend that kind of money to have.
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