Reacting To The Tim Connely Hire + The Offseason Ahead w/ Kyle Theige

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige to discuss Monday’s breaking news of the hiring of Tim Connelly away from the Denver Nuggets and to become the President of Basketball Operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Dane and Kyle give their instant reactions to the news that has been percolating over the last week. Topics covered in the conversation include: — Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez convert on their big-game hunting quest to land a top-notch executive — Connelly’s offseason to-do list — Sachin Gupta’s role going forward — The Finch and Connelly relationship — The Wolves set up to have max cap space in the summer of 2023 and what Connelly might be able to do with that — How this addition signals the influence and likely long-term impact of the Lore and Rodriguez as owners For a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security, sign up at Aura.com/Dane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast brought to you by Blue Wire podcast coming at you Monday afternoon because Minnesota Timberwolves officially now have a new president of basketball operations.
0:26.8	Reports all over the place.
0:28.5	He has PN.
0:29.7	The athletic.
0:30.4	I don't know.
0:30.7	Do you have to say who does it first?
0:32.1	They both did it.
0:32.9	They both reported that Tim Connolly is on a five-year contract for $40 million to be the new
0:41.5	president of basketball operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves, obviously a huge day
0:47.1	in the franchise and will define a lot of where they will go.
0:51.5	This is the initial instant reaction portion of our analysis on this
0:57.6	front office move. And I have Kyle Taigy, who you all know from canesupus.com to join me to
1:04.8	initially react to this. I always kind of bop Kyle, for one, we need a sort of state of the franchise,
1:14.0	sort of sentiment here. So, so Kyle, yeah, new president of basketball operations. What, what does,
1:21.4	what does this mean to you? Well, as a big journalist, I want to first credit Alexlex rodriguez for breaking the news um via his
1:30.3	instagram which is like we'll talk about basketball stuff but that's also like the most
1:34.9	timberwolves 2022 like internet moment uh shout out to my guy trip wagner just to like have him
1:42.2	leak a press release that he was reviewing, and then, like,
1:45.9	six minutes later, Woj and Shams had it. But it's an exciting day. Is it not? Like, I'm sure we're
1:51.9	going to get into all the different angles, and you've had 14 different pods on it. But, like,
1:56.9	I just think in general, we don't know if this is going to work.
2:06.0	We don't know if it's like if it was too big of a swing, whatever. But it's interesting to me to see Mark, Lori and Alex Rodriguez come in again.
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