Minnesota Timberwolves: 10 forward options in free agency

7. Trevor Booker

We’ve arrived at yet another player who was technically picked by Minnesota in the NBA Draft — and, strangely enough, in the same draft as Babbitt.

Back in 2010, Booker was picked 23rd by the Timberwolves and traded with second-round pick Hamady N’Diaye for Nemanja Bjelica and Lazar Hayward. Bjelica, of course, could be exactly the player that a new forward acquisition, such as Booker, would be replacing in the Wolves rotation moving forward.

Booker doesn’t bring the shooting skill to the table that many of the others on this list possess, but he’s good enough in other areas that he should still be considered.

After spending his first four seasons in Washington, Booker played in Utah for two years, Brooklyn for one, and then split last season between the Nets, Sixers, and Pacers.

Booker has started to add somewhat of a 3-point shot to his game; since leaving Washington he’s attempted nearly one three per game, but shot only 31.4 percent on those attempts. But the biggest thing that he’d bring to the table is the ability to guard bigger players and still switch out onto the perimeter with his 6-foot-8 frame, all while maintaining a solid rebounding rate.

Booker doesn’t bring much to the table offensively, scoring the majority of his points around the rim and in the paint, but he’d be a good pick-and-roll player and, more importantly, shore up the second unit from a defensive perspective.