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Grizzlies Send:
Norm Nixon
Truck Robinson

Timberwolves Send:
Brad Davis
Allen Leavell
Cedrick Hordges
Jeff Wilkins
Paul Westphal
85 Wolves 1st
86 Wolves 1st

Grizzlies cut Scott Terpening, Shane Szczerbiak, Glen Gondrezick

Accept. This leaves me with a core of Bridgeman, McNamara, Nixon, Lucas, Tripucka, Washington, and my 1983 1st rounder for several years (5 years of Nixon and Bridgeman after the season. geez). I am hoping Truck can take over Luca's role for the rest of the season while Lucas provides 6th man play. I'll have to get creative and selective this upcoming off season as I'll have somewhere around 12M space to maneuver under the hard cap.

Good dealing. I originally sought John Drew and Nixon together for 3 1sts, but there really was no way to match that cap-wise without trading away someone not-so-expendable.

I'm not one for ever rebuilding, so why keep the 1sts. Still hurts though.

Good dealing.

Explaining my logic here as well because I'm assuming some people will be asking why I'm giving up Nixon and Drew before next season despite them being on contract.

1. I only have 12 games less, less than the rest of the lottery teams, with teams that are either bottom of the pool, or very high in standings, so not really controllable
2. I field a pretty decent starting lineup with this trade with some fillers
3. This is when the value of my players are the highest given their contracts, right before playoff push teams. They won't be doing this pre FA and post FA salaries will be harder to match, esp with this FA pool.

Mainly taking picks from players with a slightly older core

Accept! Good luck.

These picks could turn out pretty spicy... Grizzlies are stocking up a nice war chest of draft picks.

Also, great trade.

Timberwolves put their chips on the table with this trade and I love it! They were playing from behind with their PG situation so Nixon is a clear upgrade and helps round out their team.

As for the Grizzlies, watch out if they can hit on their draft picks in the next couple of years with their amount of future picks.

Added picks to futures thread

Done