do you consider trading Rudy after this year no huh tra you trade cat and get another big piece I'm trading Rudy before I'm trading cat no I'm trading cat trading cat ladies and gentlemen we officially got our very first piece of breaking news right before the new NBA season and of all teams to make another crazy trade it's none other than the New York Knicks the team that probably improved the most in the entire NBA throughout the off season just pulled out another crazy trade out of nowhere Minnesota timberwol fans are panicking in regards to
the trade compensation but we're going to take you through this video and explain why this is a good trade for both sides and why the Minnesota Timberwolves really didn't have much of a choice so before we get to the content we are less than 5,000 subscribers away from a million subscribers make sure you subscribe and turn on our notifications to help us get there now that we can all that out of the way to the intro [Music] [Music] this past month has been amazing everybody has been using the Caleb Williams free Square to make some
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we made a video saying that this could be the end of Carl Anthony towns in the Minnesota Timberwolves ironically I put cat in a New York Knicks jersey for this video now was that a termite do I have termites are you uhuh uhuh and well the comments really let me have it for this particular video this is pretty premature considering that they are playing well and he's been really solid on defense who are they going to bring in to help them contend it's not like he's a ball hog and disrupting the offense he's just had
a really bad start offensively mainly shooting in offensive fouls at some point he'll have to be moved but why do it mid seon when his trade value is really low and the team is playing really well probably the comment that really aged interestingly was cat's been struggling offensively but he's actually been pretty good defensively you might be wondering Mike how are you able to predict Carl Anthony towns getting traded to the Knicks 10 months ago and the truth is I just knew cat was going to get traded based off of the brand new CBA you
see the brand new CBA was practically created to destroy teams like the Golden State Warriors or the Denver nuget or the New York Knicks and it also results in a lot more teams needing to make these types of business decisions to stay under the salary cap so they don't hit the second apron in the case of the Minnesota Timberwolves if you take a look at their salary cap right now things were not looking good for this team from the GetGo you see the last time the Timberwolves made a huge trade it was for Rudy goar
and Rudy goar is making $44 million up next you have Carl Anthony towns who signed a supermax contract before the new CBA because back then that's what she did you signed any player that had even the slightest bit of potential to a supermax contract the moment he could get it so Carl Anthony towns makes $49 million next year but then they have Anthony Edwards who turned into a superstar so he makes $42 million next year all of that adds up to about 135 million and some change but then you have Jaden McDaniels who's making 22.5
million and the rest of the team is at 42.5 million when you have a team that's constructed in this manner and is getting paid about $200 million they better be Practically Perfect and they better make it to the NBA finals except the Minnesota Timberwolves didn't you see the timber wolves were the best defensive team in the NBA last year and not only were they relatively healthy but they were incredible to watch you remember that 20po comeback in game seven of the Western Conference semi-finals against the Denver Nuggets everybody picked the young upand cominging Minnesota Timberwolves
to make it to the NBA finals to Face Off off against the Boston Celtics everything was going perfectly Anthony Edwards was being compared to Michael Jordan and he was saying really funny like this I have not been to Minnesota in probably 20 years bring G ass in terms of matching up with the Dallas Mavericks the Minnesota Timberwolves were supposed to dominate The Mavericks Jaden McDaniels was supposed to slow down Luca donic Anthony Edwards may have had to step up against Kyrie Irving but there's no question about it Carl Anthony towns was supposed to dominate PJ
Washington except he didn't Carl Anthony Town shot three of 22 from three during the first three games in the Western Conference Finals he shot 38% throughout that entire series and was getting bullied by PJ Washington of all players it got so bad that the Minnesota Timberwolves had to bench Carl Anthony towns for Nas Reed in game two the Dallas Mavericks ended up winning that series and making it to the NBA finals but there was no question about it in terms of match in up with the Mavericks the Timberwolves should have won that game the only
problem was Carl Anthony towns choked so going into the offseason the Timberwolves had a decision that they needed to make who do they choose do they choose between Rudy goar who was a bit of an offensive liability or Carl Anthony towns who was once considered to be the most promising young player in the NBA but didn't show up in these key games I mean look I know this is an adorable moment between Carl Anthony towns and Anthony Edwards but who seems like the real leader between these two the 28-year-old former number one overall pick of
the 2015 NBA draft or the more recent number one overall pick of the 2020 NBA draft again let me just say tonight he wasn't in foul trouble like the first three games and tonight I told him what did I tell you last game he said yo we ain't find the way not to foul him I said I'm going try like every if you watch the game every time in the third quarter when we would grow Elite it's because he's in the game because they don't have a matchup for him so we just got to keep
him from getting getting foul TR man he's going to be great every night probably cuz I was trying to play more defense I mean so clearly the Timberwolves had an issue they needed to figure out how to move on from one of their most talented players who was a liability in the context of specific key moments of an NBA game while also getting underneath the salary cap if you guys remember two weeks ago I made a video titled the New York Knicks are not done making trades and yeah in this particular instance Julius Randall was
photoshopped in a Lakers jersey but the idea of this video was it was only a matter of time before Julius Randall got traded from the New York Knicks primarily because he was such a valuable asset and Brian Windor explains perfectly why he's such a valuable asset here Julius Randall is going to be the guy that I was going to pick next for most intriguing Randall was an All-Star last year a very attractive 2018 actually about $29 million this year his player option for next season is 31 million the New York had a remarkable off season
a lot of people like to say that the Mikel Bridges trade was the Pinnacle of the New York Knicks off season but I'd respectfully disagree the best move that happened for the New York Knicks for the entire off season was Jaylen brunson's Hometown discount and Jaylen brunson's Hometown discount is really showing itself right here you see Jaylen Brunson could have waited on till 2025 and signed a 5year $269 million contract extension instead he gave the New York Nicks a $113 million discount signing a 4-year $16.5 million contract extension immediately the Knicks got to work not
only were they able to get Mel Bridges who is one of the best two-way players in the NBA that is in the midst of his prime but on top of that they were able to retain ogan anobi so immediately people started calling the New York Knicks the villain NOA Knicks I mean they had Dante de vinchenzo and Mel Bridges and Jaylen Brunson and Josh Hart I mean this was the most excitement that the New York Knicks have generated in years since the Patrick Ying era even but the New York Knicks had one more major trade
up their sleeve and it was a blockbuster trade that made way too much sense in a beginning of a brand new era where we don't have any tweets from Adrien wowski breaking the min OTA Timberwolves are nearing a trade to send Allstar Carl Anthony towns to the New York Knicks sources tell me and John krinski as time went on we found out what the trade package was and it's an absolute doozy I mean the Knicks acquire Carl Anthony towns from Minnesota for Julius Randall Dante de vinchenzo and a first round pick via Detroit sources tell
me and John krinski so this reunites Carl Anthony towns with Tom Tibido and Carl Anthony towns isn't necessarily very happy about this trade either his reaction to this trade was dot dot dot and Timber's fans are wondering why they would make themselves such a trade in the case of the Minnesota Tim rules the vision is to elevate Nas Reed into the starting lineup and fans are wondering how you could have Julius Randall and Rudy goar in the front Court my assumption is for the New York Knicks what they're planning on doing at least my guess
is they're going to have Nas Reed in the starting five and they'll very rarely play Julius Randall and Rudy gobear together you'll more likely see Nas Reed and Julius Randle in the front court and the way they want to rotate that is really up to Chris Finch in this particular instance the Timberwolves hands were tied if they wanted to have flexibility moving forward so they didn't really have much of a choice but to make this move but I'm not necessarily expecting this to be a huge downgrade for the Timberwolves especially if you're bringing Julius Randall
off of your bench in regards to the Minnesota Timberwolves this is such a home run of a trade that my mind is just blown because they literally just broke the NBA as a result of of Jaylen brunson's discount the New York Knicks had the ability to easily take in the $220 million contract that Carl Anthony towns is getting paid over the next four years whereas the Timberwolves clearly couldn't because they were paying Rudy goar and Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels this extends further than just the salary cap I mean Carl Anthony towns is a remarkable
fit for the New York Knicks he can either play as a five or he could slide in at the four next to Mitchell Robinson he shot 40% from Beyond The Arc during the regular season last year he averaged 23 points and 11 total rebounds last year he had a PR of 24 and a value over replacement player of a 2.3 the Minnesota Timberwolves just simply couldn't afford him on the Minnesota Timberwolves cat was expected to be the leader of that franchise the former number one overall pick 28 years old in the playoff series with the
young upand cominging Anthony Edwards you were expected to be the Kareem Abdul Jabar to ant Magic Johnson but he wasn't able to do that and when the pressure was at its highest Carl Anthony towns choked but now on the New York Knicks you're not necessarily expected to be the leader of this team this is Jaylen brunson's team and there's tons of Elite Talent on this team it's very deep and it's coached by one of the best defensive Minds in NBA history it sucks that the villain NOA Knicks are officially broken up Dante de venzo will
obviously be missed by the Knicks but he's an incredible rotation piece as well for the Minnesota Timberwolves who shot 38% from three last year and is on a good contract for the New York Knicks obviously I give him an A+ for this trade for the Minnesota Timberwolves this is going to be a little controversial I give him an A minus for this trade we've seen teams hold on to their talent for way too long when they clearly have no leverage and if the timberwol waited too long in this particular instance they could have potentially been
in a situation where they gave up Carl Anthony towns for practically nothing just to get underneath the luxury tax and from that perspective I think this was a home run for the Minnesota Timberwolves yeah you have juliia Randall whose front Court fit with Rudy gobear is a little questionable but he's on a good contract and maybe we'll find more luck in a front court with nas Reed obviously the Timberwolves have some questions that they need to answer at least they got a good return for Carl Anthony towns let me know in the comment section down
below what you guys think about this trade because we spoke about a lot of number one overall picks in this particular trade but a number one overall pick that's still to this point has not been signed as marel folz why is this the case well we made a whole video on marel is rise and fall and why no team has signed him so far I'll meet you guys over there and I'll leave it in the end screen aside from that I'm your boy Mike I'm dropping our mic until our next upload
