Knowing K-Love didn’t want to be in Minnesota, trading him was the most logical solution for the organization. If the T-Wolves waited another year to trade K-Love and let him play out his contract, after the season he would become a free agent and the T-Wolves would not have gotten anything out of that situation. Instead, the T-Wolves invested their resources to currently make up a team with high experienced players that have played for the T-Wolves in previous years like Nikola Pekovic (17.5 pts. per game, 8.7 rebounds per game) and Ricky Rubio (9.5 pts. per game, 8.6 ast. per game), with low experienced, but with hype and high expectations, players like Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett, but also with the highly experienced players that have played for other teams like Thaddeus Young (Philadelphia, 17.9 pts per game, 6 rebounds per game) and Mo Williams (Portland, 9.7 pts per game, 4.3 ast. per game, Mo Williams, Nikola Pekovic, Ricky Rubio, Thaddeus Young).
A huge part of the trade was a little bit of a gamble. Trading K-Love away for Andrew Wiggins, a freshman at Kansas, who only played one year at the college level but averaged 17.1 points per game along with 5.9 rebounds per game (Sports Reference), Anthony Bennett, and Thaddeus Young, could be a risky move. Wiggins standing at 6 foot 8 inches, put up “All American” numbers at Kansas, but the T-Wolf community doesn’t exactly know what to expect from him as a player. Also another reason why this could be a risky move on the Wiggins side of things, is that he has only one year of college basketball under his belt, which for some players is enough time to develop as a player, but for most, not enough time. Andrew Wiggins won’t have Michael-Jordan-like-expectations, but he is expected to contribute to the organization since K-Love is gone. Not only that, but the team as a whole will need to and have to pick up the slack and some players will need to step into new roles now that the face of the franchise is in Cleveland.
To find a 6 foot 8 inch, 200 lbs. guard in the NCAA with the amount of talent that Andrew Wiggins owns is very rare. To find a guard of his stature with the amount of potential that he wields is in an even broader aspect. T hough in his ball handling arsenal he doesn’t have an Allen-Iverson-like-crossover nor a highly consistent shot from the outside, but he has tremendous athletic ability, he is quick and strong, along with a solid mid-range and inside game which makes him quite a deadly threat on offense. Also adding in his defensive ability and his quickness, makes him an “above average rookie” with a tremendous amount of still un-harvested talent.
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