Why this trade makes sense for the Minnesota Timberwolves
The Timberwolves are terrible… that is the nice way of putting it. They have some great talents in Towns, D’Angelo Russell, emerging wing Malik Beasley and rookie Anthony Edwards, but overall, this team is really bad and they recently fired their head coach Ryan Saunders.
They currently hold the worst record in the league and that is likely not going to change between now and the end of the season. There is nothing that can be done to salvage this season for the Timberwolves and while they have some great talents, they are far from being a playoff threat in the Western Conference.
Karl-Anthony Towns has wasted the first five years of his career in Minnesota and after this season, he will be 26-years old and soon to be entering the prime of his career. He is too good of a player to waste years on a terrible team that has no chance of winning, which is why he could request a trade to the Knicks in the offseason.
By making this trade with the Knicks, the Timberwolves get the one thing that they so desperately need and that is a future. Nobody knows what direction the T-Wolves are heading right now, but we do know they are trending downwards. They have made the playoffs just once since 2004 and really have not had any success.
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Trading Towns and receiving Immanuel Quickley (21-years-old), Mitchell Robinson (22-years-old) and Kevin Knox II (21-years-old) not only gives them three young and talented players, but they also get a ton of draft compensation that they can utilize over the next few years to continue drafting high-level, young talents.
With Malik Beasley, Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels being the young future of the Timberwolves franchise, adding onto this young core with key talents and draft picks could be exactly what they need to quickly turn things around without Towns in the picture.
Towns is one of the best centers in the entire league, but in Minnesota, he has no chance to do anything special. The Timberwolves organization has been in shambles for years and if he wants to cement his legacy in the NBA and leave his mark, then he needs to go to the Knicks.
