What else could the Minnesota Timberwolves do in the offseason?
The Minnesota Timberwolves completed their starting lineup on Wednesday when they signed Jonathan Kuminga.
Kuminga became an unrestricted free agent at the start of the offseason when the Atlanta Hawks, who acquired him from the Golden State Warriors at the 2026 trade deadline, declined his team option worth $24.3 million.
The Timberwolves signed Kuminga to a two-year, $12.4 million deal using their taxpayer mid-level exception.
Minnesota has had a busy offseason, trading Naz Reid and Julius Randle, leaving a gap at the starting power forward position and in their frontcourt. Kuminga will join Anthony Edwards, LaMelo Ball, Jaden McDaniels, and Rudy Gobert in the starting lineup.
What’s Next For Minnesota?
The addition of Kuminga is going to put Minnesota into the second apron, which all teams are looking to avoid as it comes with various restrictions.
Minnesota would need to make at least one more move, either trading another player and taking back less salary in return or waiving and stretching a contract. Any roster subtraction would need to come with at least one roster addition to be at the 14-contract minimum.
According to Brett Siegel of Clutch Points, Donte DiVincenzo and Josh Green are the “obvious names” that Minnesota can look to trade or waive-and-stretch.
DiVincenzo is in the last year of a deal that pays him $12.5 million, but will miss the majority of the season after suffering an Achilles tear in the first round of the playoffs. Green is in the last year of his $14.6 million deal and was acquired as part of the LaMelo Ball trade.
What Should Minnesota Do?
Finding a suitor for DiVincenzo will be tough given his injury and Minnesota having no draft capital to attach to the deal as a sweetener for other teams.
Green may have a couple of suitors with his three-point shooting, but he hasn’t proven to be a consistent rotation player after six years in the league, and his numbers have slowly declined over the past four seasons.
Other teams also know that Minnesota is in a tough spot, killing their leverage in a potential deal.
The one thing they have going for them is that both deals are expiring, and a team might be willing to move a long-term deal in order to gain an expiring deal. Minnesota would still have to take back around $2 million less in any deal.
Otherwise, the Timberwolves are looking at having to waive-and-stretch one of the two players and losing them for nothing.
