Should the Timberwolves look to extend the reigning Defensive Player of the Year?
The Timberwolves will have some contract decisions to make sooner or later, among them whether to extend center and reigning Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert.
Gobert, 32, is due $44 million this season and has a player option — one he’d almost certainly accept — worth north of $46 million for 2025-26. While the Wolves will be stuck above the second apron this season and will have to pay the luxury tax, extending Gobert could be their most elegant solution to getting back under the second apron and begin the process of getting under the luxury tax.
And that doesn't include the decisions the Wolves will have to make elsewhere on the roster. Naz Reid has a $15 million player option for 2025-26, but Minnesota might want to look at extending him this season as Reid could make significantly more by declining that option and signing elsewhere. Along with Reid, Nickeil Alexander-Walker will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season.
Another approach could be for the Wolves to bite the bullet and let Gobert accept his player option for 2025-26, putting them above the second apron for the second year in a row. It would depend on how severe they view the new penalties to be, including their first-round pick seven years out being automatically moved to the end of the first round. But it would leave few commitments beyond 25-26.
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