Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast offseason preview series where Bryce Simon and I dive deep into every NBA team's fourth coming off season and all of the important decisions that those front offices have to make today.

We are going to talk about the Minnesota Timberwolves, but first, we got a shout out the listeners of the show.

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Bryce, let's talk about Minnesota.

The Timberwolves have an incredibly important offseason, I would argue, like a truly momentous

offseason because they

have made the conference finals each of the last two years. But last year it was with Carl Anthony Towns.

This year it was with Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo. Julius Randall has a player option,

which early in the season, it didn't look like he would actually exercise and it looked like

it might be a weight around the Minnesota off season.

Instead, it looks like he might exercise it and opt out.

And the team will have to make a decision on a long-term contract.

Additionally, Nas Reid, he has a player option this summer as well.

Nikiel Alexander Walker is a free agent,

three guys that I would argue have been in their top six to seven players over the course

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