NBA Rumors: Timberwolves Dangling Former Top Pick To Interested Teams

The Minnesota Timberwolves are another team expected to overhaul their roster and it looks like one player exiting soon is Andrew Wiggins. The top pick of the 2014 NBA Draft is reportedly being offered to teams as of this writing although no ballclub has stepped forward yet. One thing that may turn teams off is the fact that they would be inheriting the Canadian's hefty contract.

Wiggins four years remaining on the $147.7 million deal he signed ahead of the 2017-18 NBA season. Per the terms of the deal via Spotrac, it runs until the 2022-23 NBA season before he becomes an unrestricted free agent. The 6-foot-8 cager would be 29 by that time - meaning he would be due another hefty deal. But the real question right now is whether he is deserving of that massive deal given by the T-Wolves.

There are some who believe that while he was not necessarily a bust, his numbers may be only good if he was a role player on a team. He holds respectable averages of 19.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 400 contests, hardly the figures a team would expect from someone they had initially perceived as the team's big superstar, CBS Sports reported. Spending all of his NBA years with Minnesota after being drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers back in 2014, the swingman even saw himself playing some two-guard at one point - an advantage against the guards of other teams because of his height. But it seems even that failed to pay off.

Not even the coming of Karl-Anthony Towns reaped dividends for the T-Wolves, seeing how Minnesota had one of the young and promising frontlines the league has to date. But if one rewinds a bit to last NBA season when Jimmy Butler was still around, perhaps Wiggins (and Towns) do need that extra push to realize that winning is everything. As things stand now, that could be another reason why he is being dangled in the market.

There is no clarity on which team would take the bait. But as the Bleacher Report suggests, Wiggins will need to recall that old form he showed during the 2016-17 NBA season. With his numbers, he could end up merely as a role player at best but not at his current deal. It is an issue the T-Wolves need to face despite pundits believing it will be a hard deal to close.