Just hours after news broke that Kevin Durant had requested a trade from the Nets, despite having four years left on his contract, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that half the league had put calls in to Brooklyn. One of those teams, according to Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic: the Timberwolves.
Minnesota wound up making a splash on Friday, trading a huge haul for Jazz center Rudy Gobert, a three-time Defensive Player of the Year.
Before that move materialized, Krawczynski reports that the T-Wolves were in talks about Myles Turner and Clint Capela as backup rim-protector options, as the Gobert trade was in jeopardy. They also placed calls to Brooklyn, but the asking price proved too big, and Minnesota was unwilling to part with Anthony Edwards or Karl-Anthony Towns to make it work.
