3 players the Minnesota Timberwolves should re-sign this offseason

Let’s start with the headliner of the first trade that the Wolves completed.

Malik Beasley was sitting on the bench for the Denver Nuggets, a player with a plethora of talent that just got stuck behind other talented players.

After averaging 23.2 minutes per game last year for a Nuggets team that was the No. 2 seed in the West, Beasley was only playing 18.2 minutes per game for this year’s squad. He may not have been retained by Denver this summer due to his upcoming status as a restricted free agent, which made him gettable on the trade market.

Rosas saw the talent that this young man had and took the chance on him, along with Juancho Hernangomez, who was also being underutilized this season with the Nuggets.

Since coming over in the trade, Beasley is averaging career-highs in almost every major statistical category, including 21.9 points per game and shooting 43.6 percent on 3-point attempts and 48.6 percent overall from the field.

Beasley is a weapon alongside Russell and should be allowed to be just that for several years.

Even if he’s not in the long-term plans, there are also reasons to retain his services in the near term. Remember, there’s a chance that the Wolves could complete a trade for Phoenix’s Devin Booker.

If the Wolves offered the Suns Beasley (on his new contract) and a pick and whatever else they might require, why wouldn’t they take it? Booker has sounded open to the possibility of being traded, and to get that return for a 23-year-old All-Star averaging over 26 a game would be hard to pass up on.