Minnesota Timberwolves: Complete 2018 offseason grades
By Luke Askew
The Minnesota Timberwolves entered the 2018 offseason after a successful season where they ended the franchise’s long playoff drought. Let’s grade each offseason move for the Wolves.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are coming off their most successful season in over a decade. For the first time since the 2003-04 season when Kevin Garnett led them to a 58-24 record, the Wolves made the playoffs.
Despite only being the eighth seed and losing to the Houston Rockets in five games, the season was still widely regarded as a positive for the franchise. Everyone in Minnesota knows there’s more work to do, however.
The Wolves are only guaranteed to have Jimmy Butler on their roster for one more season and it wouldn’t be a surprise if he left in free agency next summer.
They don’t necessarily need to win a championship next season (they really aren’t in contention for that), but they do need to win a lot of games and probably a playoff series to even have a chance at re-signing Jimmy Buckets, if he opts out of the final year of his contract.
That’s why the offseason was so important this summer. They had to make moves to help bump themselves up in the Western Conference.
With that being said, let’s go through each move they made this offseason and grade them accordingly.