Ricky Rubio Traded For Taurean Prince + What This Might Mean For The Timberwolves Offseason

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Dane Moore

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🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we get into the Minnesota Timberwolves draft night. A night that included no draft picks, but a rather meaningful trade of Ricky Rubio in exchange for Taurean Prince and a 2022 2nd round pick. Mixed into the pod are audio snippets from Gersson Rosas’ late-night press conference that help clarify what the Wolves were doing on draft night and what they may have planned for the offseason. — Myles Turner Fodder: Rosas’ suggests they will be pursuing a big man in the offseason to play next to Karl-Anthony Towns, potentially even a center — What Prince would bring if he is in fact the starting power forward — The financial flexibility created by swapping Rubio for Prince — Why Prince presents the same problems Robert Covington and Jaden McDaniels presented as small-ball partners for KAT in the front court 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 by Blue Wire Podcasts and the
0:18.2	2020-N-the-Bay draft is in the books.
0:21.2	Minnesota Timberolds had no picks because both their first round pick and their second round pick in this draft were traded a year ago in the DeAngel Russell for Andrew Wiggins swap.
0:29.9	So they made no picks, but they did make a trade.
0:32.5	Pretty big one.
0:33.2	Not like a not Ben Simmons level big.
0:36.4	But trading Ricky Rubio for Tori and Prince and a future
0:39.0	second round pick is decently big because of what it, what it rules out. I mean, as you all
0:44.9	know, we've been playing this hypothetical Ben Simmons, John Collins, Miles Turner trade game for
0:50.9	months now, right? And the two names we've talked about outgoing from the
0:55.2	Timberwolves in those trades were always either Ricky Rubio or Malik Beasley. That's just the
1:01.0	reality of how trades work. You got to send out money to take money in. So if the wolves were ever
1:05.8	going to trade for a player or are still ever going to trade for a player with a salary in the
1:10.0	$20 million range, then they needed to trade for a player with a salary in the $20 million range,
1:11.3	then they needed to trade a player in that same salary range.
1:15.4	And that was Beasley and Rubio.
1:17.1	Beasley's there at $15 million, and Rubio was there at $18 million.
1:21.9	And with Rubio now out, that takes away one option.
1:25.8	Tori and Prince only makes $13 million, so he's not really in that range.
1:30.3	So if the wolves are still going to get aggressive in this off-season in the trade market,
1:34.0	and if Daniel Russell really is off-limits, well, then Beasley is now the only guy
1:38.2	that really fills that financial slot.
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