The Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves completed the biggest draft-day trade, swapping draft picks and moving Jimmy Butler to Minnesota in exchange for a couple of lesser players. In the video above, Kyle Wagner breaks down the trade and wonders what the Bulls were thinking.
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (Dec. 13, 2016), ESPN The Magazine’s Mina Kimes joins us to help preview the NFL playoffs. Next, we delve into high-scoring Timberwolves swingman Andrew Wiggins’s numbers, looking at how good he was expected to be and how good he’s actually […]
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (Dec. 13, 2016), ESPN The Magazine’s Mina Kimes joins us to help preview the NFL playoffs. Next, we delve into high-scoring Timberwolves swingman Andrew Wiggins’s numbers, looking at how good he was expected to be and how good he’s actually […]
At a bare minimum, with two-time defending dunk contest champ Zach LaVine and back-to-back Rookie of the Year award winners Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns, the Minnesota Timberwolves figured to be one of the NBA’s more entertaining teams this season. The team, which won 29 games during the 2015 campaign, is incredibly young, and added […]
At a bare minimum, with two-time defending dunk contest champ Zach LaVine and back-to-back Rookie of the Year award winners Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns, the Minnesota Timberwolves figured to be one of the NBA’s more entertaining teams this season. The team, which won 29 games during the 2015 campaign, is incredibly young, and added […]
