1. Minnesota Has Limited Potential to Add Talent

This further touches on the point I just made, players are not going to want to play in Minnesota.  They were obviously successful in bringing in Jimmy Butler, but that was because of a trade due to Minnesota drafting well and having the pieces to pull it off. Now, Butler wants out and it could be a nightmare trying to find a replacement talent.

He already turned down a 4-year, $110 million extension offer and can be offered a 5-year contract worth $187 million next offseason by Minnesota. That is a lot of money, and combined with the contract that Andre Wiggins just signed would leave no room to add pieces.

Andrew Wiggins just signed a five-year deal worth $146.5 million and now Karl-Anthony Towns is eligible for a max extension similar to the five-year deal worth $158 million one that Devin Booker just signed in Phoenix.

There is a lot of appeal for building your legacy with the team that drafted you, even if it is a small market team. Maybe Karl-Anthony Towns becomes so good that stars will decide to play in Minnesota even though it is a smaller market in order to play with Towns.  It is not something I would count on if I was Towns.

Karl-Anthony Towns is a very good player who deserves to be paid, but maybe holding off and sacrificing a bit of money in order to play somewhere where they can build a better roster around Towns and attract stars to play with him would be the better path for Karl-Anthony Towns’ career.