2017–18 Minnesota Timberwolves season

2017–18 Minnesota Timberwolves season
Head coach Tom Thibodeau
General manager Scott Layden
Owner(s) Glen Taylor
Arena Target Center
Results
Record 0–0
Place Division: 0th (Northwest)
Stats @ Basketball-Reference.com
Local media
Television Fox Sports North
Radio WCCO

The 2017–18 Minnesota Timberwolves season will be the 29th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Draft

Round Pick Player Position Nationality College
1 16 Justin Patton C  United States Creighton

Entering the draft, the Timberwolves only held one first round pick at #7; their second round pick was forced to be traded away to the Boston Celtics due to a previous trade involving the Phoenix Suns (and former New Orleans Hornets) allowing the Suns (later Celtics) to acquire their 2017 second round pick if their lottery protected pick wasn't acquired by 2016. Exiting draft night, however, they traded away their #7 pick, which was the Finnish center/power forward Lauri Markkanen from University of Arizona, alongside last year's top selection (Kris Dunn) and Zach Lavine to the Chicago Bulls in exchange for All-Star shooting guard/small forward Jimmy Butler and the Bulls' own first round selection, which was #16 pick Justin Patton, a redshirt freshman center from Creighton University for the purpose of ending their 13 year long playoff drought.

Roster

Minnesota Timberwolves roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY-MM-DD) From
C 45 Aldrich, Cole 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 250 lb (113 kg) 1988-10-31 Kansas
F 8 Bjelica, Nemanja  6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 225 lb (102 kg) 1988-05-09 Serbia
F — Brown, Anthony (TW) 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 211 lb (96 kg) 1992–10–10 Stanford
G/F 23 Butler, Jimmy (C) 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 231 lb (105 kg) 1989-09-14 Marquette
G 11 Crawford, Jamal 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 195 lb (88 kg) 1980-03-20 Michigan
F/C 5 Dieng, Gorgui 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 240 lb (109 kg) 1990-01-18 Louisville
G — Georges-Hunt, Marcus 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 220 lb (100 kg) 1994–03–28 Georgia Tech
F 67 Gibson, Taj 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 236 lb (107 kg) 1985-06-24 Southern California
G 1 Jones, Tyus 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 195 lb (88 kg) 1996-05-10 Duke
C 24 Patton, Justin 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) 230 lb (104 kg) 1997-06-14 Creighton
G 0 Teague, Jeff 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 186 lb (84 kg) 1988-06-10 Wake Forest
F/C 32 Towns, Karl-Anthony (C) 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) 244 lb (111 kg) 1995-11-15 Kentucky
G/F 22 Wiggins, Andrew (C) 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 215 lb (98 kg) 1995-02-23 Kansas
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (DP) Unsigned draft pick
  • (FA) Free agent
  • (S) Suspended
  • (GL) On assignment to G League affiliate
  • (TW) Two-way affiliate player
  • Injured

Roster • Transactions
Last transaction: 2017-07-04

Standings

Division

Northwest Division W L PCT GB Home Road Div GP
Denver Nuggets 0 0 – 0.0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0
Minnesota Timberwolves 0 0 – 0.0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0
Oklahoma City Thunder 0 0 – 0.0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0
Portland Trail Blazers 0 0 – 0.0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0
Utah Jazz 0 0 – 0.0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0

Conference

Western Conference
# Team W L PCT GB GP
1 Dallas Mavericks * 0 0 – – 0
2 Denver Nuggets * 0 0 – 0.0 0
3 Golden State Warriors * 0 0 – 0.0 0
4 Houston Rockets 0 0 – 0.0 0
5 Los Angeles Clippers 0 0 – 0.0 0
6 Los Angeles Lakers 0 0 – 0.0 0
7 Memphis Grizzlies 0 0 – 0.0 0
8 Minnesota Timberwolves 0 0 – 0.0 0
9 New Orleans Pelicans 0 0 – 0.0 0
10 Oklahoma City Thunder 0 0 – 0.0 0
11 Phoenix Suns 0 0 – 0.0 0
12 Portland Trail Blazers 0 0 – 0.0 0
13 Sacramento Kings 0 0 – 0.0 0
14 San Antonio Spurs 0 0 – 0.0 0
15 Utah Jazz 0 0 – 0.0 0

Game log

Preseason

2017 pre-season game log
Total: 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
Pre-season: 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
2017–18 season schedule

Regular season

2017–18 game log
Total: 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
October: 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
November : 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
December : 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
January : 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
February : 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
March : 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
April: 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–0)
2017–18 season schedule

Transactions

Trades

June 22, 2017
 To Minnesota Timberwolves
Jimmy Butler[1]
Draft rights to Justin Patton		 To Chicago Bulls
Kris Dunn
Zach LaVine
Draft rights to Lauri Markkanen
June 29, 2017
 To Minnesota Timberwolves
2018 first-round pick[2]		 To Utah Jazz
Ricky Rubio

Free agents

Re-signed

Player Signed

Additions

Player Signed Former Team
Jeff Teague[3] 3-year contract worth $57 million Indiana Pacers
Taj Gibson[4] 2-year contract worth $28 million Oklahoma City Thunder
Jamal Crawford[5] 2-year contract worth $8.9 million Atlanta Hawks
Anthony Brown[6] Two-way contract Erie BayHawks

Subtractions

Player Reason Left New Team
Nikola Peković[7] Waived
Jordan Hill[8] Waived
Omri Casspi[9] 1-year contract worth $2.1 million Golden State Warriors

References

  1. ↑ "Timberwolves acquire three-time NBA All-Star and 2016/17 All-NBA third team selection Jimmy Butler". NBA.com/timberwolves. June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Timberwolves acquire 2018 first-round draft pick from Utah in exchange for guard Ricky Rubio". NBA.com/timberwolves. June 30, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Timberwolves sign All-Star guard Jeff Teague". NBA.com/timberwolves. July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Timberwolves sign forward Taj Gibson". NBA.com/timberwolves. July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Timberwolves sign guard Jamal Crawford". NBA.com/timberwolves. July 19, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Timberwolves sign Anthony Brown tO two-way Contract". NBA.com/timberwolves. August 1, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Timberwolves waive center Nikola Pekovic". NBA.com/timberwolves. June 20, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Timberwolves waive forward/center Jordan Hill". NBA.com/timberwolves. June 26, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Warriors sign free agent Forward Omri Casspi". NBA.com/warriors. July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
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