Wolves Acquire Pick, Carney and Booth From Sixers

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Deal with Sixers complete
Published 7/9/2008 by SG at TWolves Blog - Minnesota Timberwolves News and Articles
... Written by SG Wednesday, 09 July 2008 From the Timberwolves site: Minnesota Timberwolves Vice President of Basketball Operations Kevin McHale today announced the team has acquired a first-round draft pick, guard Rodney Carney, center Calvin Booth and cash considerations from the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for a future conditional second-round draft pick."Acquiring another first-round draft pick gives us an additional asset as we continue building our team," said McHale. "This trade continues our plan of building around our young core of developing players while ...

Half Mast
Published 7/9/2008 by Dave Snizewski (noreply@blogger.com) at Timberwolves Den
... up signing their first All-Star caliber point guard since Mark Jackson left a decade-and-a-half ago. It may not end up that way. Maybe Baron will sign and they can sign Josh Smith away from Atlanta. But this is the Clippers we’re talking about, so I have a hard time believing anything other than worst case scenario. Of course if they had suceeded in re-signing Elton Brand he probably would've ended up like Shaun Livingston. Just glad we could help.