According to ESPN, Karl-Anthony Towns and Jimmy Butler are actively pushing Timberwolves management to trade for Kyrie Irving, and have also been attempting to recruit the superstar point guard.
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Irving recently informed the Cleveland Cavaliers that he’d like to be be moved.
Minnesota is reportedly where Kyrie wants to end up.
Per the Star Tribune:
No, it wasn’t any of the alleged drama between LeBron James and his Cavaliers teammate. Rather, it was a nugget from ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith during a radio appearance on Mike & Mike.
We already knew that Irving apparently has four teams he would prefer to be traded to: New York, Miami, San Antonio and Minnesota.
But Smith went a step further, reporting that those are indeed the four teams Irving would prefer to play for and adding, “and Minnesota is his No. 1 preference.”
It’s also worth wondering how well Irving would fit in with the Wolves given his seeming desire to be a clear No. 1 player on a team. The Wolves already have Karl-Anthony Towns, Jimmy Butler and Andrew Wiggins, and even if one of them was involved in a trade for Irving (Wiggins is the most likely candidate), this is a team that already has some star power.
