State of the Wolves with Jon Krawczynski

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

Sports News, Sports, Basketball, News

4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Dane is joined by Jon Krawczynski from The Athletic to take a moment between the end of the season and the beginning of the offseason to look at the state of the Wolves. Dane and Jon reflect on the difficult 2022-23 season and look ahead to more big decisions Tim Connelly and the front office have ahead for them. Specific topics today include... -- Reflecting on the fan frustration from this season -- Why the Gobert trade was a big decision that came with big expectations -- Comparing Year 1 of the Jimmy Butler era to Year 1 of the Rudy Gobert era -- More big decisions to come, which will also come with expectations -- Comparing the Wolves Salary Cap To The Nuggets -- What we're hearing on the free agencies of Naz Reid and Nickeil Alexander-Walker Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/Dane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the day and more NBA podcast brought to you by the Genesis Company coming at you Tuesday morning.
0:18.7	It's June 13th.
0:20.9	And today we have John Krasinski from The Athletic joining us.
0:24.7	As John, we were just talking about sitting at the point of the summer where we began
0:29.4	to shift from reflecting on the season that was, which I guess officially ended last night.
0:34.4	Congrats to the Denver Nuggets.
0:35.8	And we start ramping up our offseason
0:39.1	coverage. The draft is in nine days. Free agency begins in 18 days. And Summer League is in 24 days.
0:46.6	It never stops, John. It's been a minute. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, it never stops. You know, my wife is thrilled that the draft
0:59.9	is right around the corner. Free agency is coming and all that. But it's exciting, right? Like,
1:05.9	this is the time like that I think you can inject a little bit of what if or what some optimism,
1:13.7	things like that and try and run through scenarios of what can happen and do some thought
1:18.2	exercises. And and that's kind of always fun to ramp up the anticipation and the buildup
1:23.2	to what, whatever actually does happen on draft night, on free agency and trades and all that stuff.
1:29.1	So I took some time away,
1:31.8	just relax a little bit and spend some family time.
1:36.4	And so now it's kind of back in the saddle.
1:39.2	Like, let's go and see what happens here.
1:41.3	So I'm looking forward to that.
1:42.5	Yeah, just the off-season start.
1:45.5	Like, I would be cool with free agency happening over like any six days of the entire summer where we are very off.
1:52.8	But it's Fourth of July and that's always the dumbest.
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