It says a lot about Jimmy Butler that teams aren’t willing to give up their young talent in a trade for him.
Teams are going to make the T-Wolves take a lowball deal.
Case in point via Yahoo.
In any deal with the Clippers, Minnesota would prefer to acquire forward Tobias Harris, sources said. Various trade packages have been proposed on both sides, but the Clippers do not intend to trade Harris, sources said.
The Timberwolves’ brass hasn’t fully engaged the Clippers’ pitches, sources said, because it is believed that president of basketball operations/head coach Tom Thibodeau is holding out hope that he can persuade Butler to rescind his trade request.
The T-Wolves are running out of time to trade Butler before the season starts.