Will the Timberwolves trade Kevin Love?

[elcheato]

They're sitting at 17-18 after coming into the year without a lot of hype. Dropping close game after close game, and Kevin Love is starting to get frustrated:
 

 
“We can’t have two guys sitting at the end of the bench, who play good minutes, just sitting there and not getting up at timeouts,” Love said
 
“We all need to be in this together. That kind of pisses me off. We’re supposed to be a team.”
 
Although Love did not use specific names in the interview, based on the fourth quarter scene on the bench all indications were that his frustrations were aimed at J.J. Barea and Dante Cunningham. …
 
“It’s to a point that where those two guys, if and when I did that last year when maybe I didn’t sit out for the game for 48 minutes and so on and so forth, they would have killed me,” Love said. “They would have aired me out. It’s two guys we expect more from them, and I think they expect more from themselves.”
 

The Wolves really don't have a lot of ways to improve the team currently. They're locked in salary wise, don't have their first unless they're top 13 in the draft. They're stuck in mediocrity for the foreseeable future.
 
Do they trade Kevin Love and hit the reset button?
 
I'm not basing this off any info or reports, just speculation.

 

[Mexi]

Next deadline at the earliest

They could have just as easily won a few of those close games as they lost

Still have talent to compete, though the bench is an issue. Hopefully budinger can stay healthy
They need something more at pg. Rubio sucks now

 

[BwareDWare94]

They're set as can be at 4 and 5, and Martin is more than good enough at 2. It comes down to getting more scoring out of Ricky and figuring out why Corey Brewer just fucking sucks balls in a Wolves uniform.
 
I say go all offense and just drop Bud into the starting lineup. Get that extra offensive boost right away and let Ricky be the only offensive liability in the starting lineup.
 
There's starting over, but that's not necessary, and how many teams have we seen get hot at the right time later in the season? Memphis made a living out of it the past 2 years. 

 

[elcheato]

Putting Chase into the starting lineup isn't going to fix any problems. They're stuck. Pek isn't as good as his numbers suggest, and that has always been the case with Kevin Martin. They're stuck, and have no way to improve the team.

 

[Mexi]

Pek, martin and love are fine
They just get nothing else from everyone else

 

[Pugz]

ive been saying they need to trade love. he didnt even seem to want to sign the extension.

 

[elcheato]

I think I might trade him too if I could get the right package. I wouldn't trade him to trade him, but if you could get 2 or 3 valuable young assets and 2 first round picks, I'm probably doing it. HAVE to follow it up with dumping Pek and Kevin Martin.

 

[Thomas-Panda-Saxby]

If I were the Timberwolves I'm not trading him, he's their Jesus basically.

 

[bosoxlover12]

I think I might trade him too if I could get the right package. I wouldn't trade him to trade him, but if you could get 2 or 3 valuable young assets and 2 first round picks, I'm probably doing it. HAVE to follow it up with dumping Pek and Kevin Martin.

Id trade Green+Bradley+Sully+Olynyk+Multiple 1sts for Love, and then take on Pek using pierce's trade exception and Bogans super expiring


Pek-Love-GR3-JCraw-Rondo


Leggo

 

[Mexi]

Who the fuck is GR3?

I actually like that trade lmao

 

[RipCity32]

Glenn Robinson III

 

[Mexi]

Oh damn
I thought he was talking current roster in a deadline trade because there is no way i would trade love without this years pick

 

[bosoxlover12]

Oh damn
I thought he was talking current roster in a deadline trade because there is no way i would trade love without this years pick

nets picks are more valuable than the #9 overall pick

 

[Mexi]

I would ask for the celtics pick, the nets pick, and maybe let the celtics keep one of kelly, sully, avery

Love AND a locked up Pek is a shit ton

Have to forfeit this years draft if im trading both in one deal

 

[Mexi]

“They should trade him,” one Eastern Conference executive said. “No one thinks he's staying. Everyone knows he wants to go to the Lakers.”

 

[elcheato]

Id trade Green+Bradley+Sully+Olynyk+Multiple 1sts for Love, and then take on Pek using pierce's trade exception and Bogans super expiring


Pek-Love-GR3-JCraw-Rondo


Leggo

The Timberwolves wouldn't.

 

[elcheato]

“They should trade him,” one Eastern Conference executive said. “No one thinks he's staying. Everyone knows he wants to go to the Lakers.”

The Lakers are going to spend their cap in the off-season and won't have max space the following year for Love. He's not going to be a Laker.

 

[Mexi]

Spend the cap on who? Melo?
If they know Love wants to be here they will forgo melo

 

[elcheato]

On anyone. Deng, Bledsoe, Melo, etc.. They're gonna sign someone to big dollars just because of how bad they've been this year. Kobe won't stand for 2 straight lottos.
 
Love is going to sign an extension with whatever team trades for him anyway.

 

[Pugz]

i cringe at the thought of bledose getting the max.