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The Minnesota Timberwolves had a good 2025-2026 season, finishing 49-33 and in sixth place in the Western Conference. However, if they find themselves to be a first or second round exit, it might be time to switch things up.
Bleacher Report’s Greg Swartz believes that one way they can do it is a three-way trade with the Los Angeles Clippers and Dallas Mavericks, where they give up Rudy Gobert and land superstar Kyrie Irving.
The trade would look like this:
Timberwolves get: PG Kyrie Irving, C Brook Lopez
Clippers get: C Rudy Gobert
Mavericks get: F Derrick Jones Jr., F Bogdan Bogdanović, C Joan Beringer, 2029 first-round pick (unprotected from Clippers via Indiana Pacers)
“Irving missed this season due to a torn ACL, but will have had a full year-and-a-half of recovery time when training camp kicks off in September. He should be more than 100 percent ready…Adding him to a T-Wolves team with Anthony Edwards, Julius Randle, Jaden McDaniels, Naz Reid and others would give Minnesota an answer to its point guard dilemma while Lopez helps fill the void left from Gobert's departure,” Swartz wrote.
Irving has been out this season with a torn achilles, but in the 2024-25 season, he averaged 24.7 points, 4.8 rebounds, 4.6 assists, and 1.3 steals in 36 minutes per game. Combining him with Anthony Edwards gives the T-Wolves’ backcourt one of the best offensive games in the NBA.
Naz Reid would take over the starting center position, and Lopez would back him up. This projected starting five could run the West, so Minnesota better get on things as soon as the offseason begins.
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