Minnesota Timberwolves: 5 players that could be traded for Jimmy Butler

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Tim Hardaway Jr. doesn’t take any (insert profanity)

Timmy Hardaway isn’t a lot of things, but you can’t say he doesn’t work insanely hard.

The best way to describe Hardaway Jr. is he’s actually what Dion Waiters believes he is, whether you like that or not. While at times Hardaway is inefficient, he does provide scoring from the bench or the starting lineup which is not necessarily what the Wolves need because of their porous defense.

Hardaway’s stat line is a bit inflated, his numbers across the board are insane: 24.4 PPG, shooting 38 percent from downtown and 91 percent from the charity stripe.

This isn’t my favorite move, but I can see the Wolves making it because of Butler wanting to go to the New York Knicks to hopefully join Kristaps Porzingis and theoretically Kyrie Irving in the potential future.

However, this move isn’t terrible for Minnesota either; getting a enormous upgrade from where Jamal Crawford was last year sounds like a nice move.

Problem is, cap wise this doesn’t give Minnesota much room for any future deals.

But there wouldn’t be much room regardless, unless they could move Gorgui Dieng for close-to nothing. Moreover, this deal would be providing Minnesota with an unprotected first round pick that would tip the scale in the Wolves’ favor to say yes, but I still can’t see Thibs loving the idea of Hardaway on his team.

Mostly because Thibs is known for his defense, and Hardaway is more a cherry-picker than a defender.

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