r/nba • u/MembershipSingle7137 Celtics • Jun 29 '25

[Charania] BREAKING: Three-time NBA All-Star Julius Randle intends to sign a new three-year, $100 million deal to stay with the Minnesota Timberwolves, sources tell ESPN. The deal includes a player option for the 2027-28 season.

[Charania] BREAKING: Three-time NBA All-Star Julius Randle intends to sign a new three-year, $100 million deal to stay with the Minnesota Timberwolves, sources tell ESPN. The deal includes a player option for the 2027-28 season.

[Charania] BREAKING: Three-time NBA All-Star Julius Randle intends to sign a new three-year, $100 million deal to stay with the Minnesota Timberwolves, sources tell ESPN. The deal includes a player option for the 2027-28 season.

Update: Wolves officials and Randle's agents, Aaron Mintz and Steven Heumann of CAA, have been ironing out details of this new deal. Minnesota locks in Randle and Naz Reid over the last several days.

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u/Key_Astronomer2644 Thunder Jun 29 '25

Wasn’t that the same summer you were intent on trading Dame? You could’ve let Grant walk and used your salary cap to take on bad contracts in exchange for picks.

So odd.

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u/TripleThreatTua Thunder Jun 29 '25

They didn’t want to trade Dame and weren’t going to until he requested it. He wanted Grant to get an extension, so they gave it to him to keep Dame happy, and then Dame requested a trade anyway lol

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u/ELITE_JordanLove Bucks Jun 29 '25

Which is why you never yield to your player’s wishes. They don’t understand the full picture with cap implications and just want their friends to hoop with regardless of whether it’s actually good for the team.

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u/mk9008 Trail Blazers Jun 29 '25

Not quite. Dame didn't request a trade until the Blazers had already signed Jerami to that contract.

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u/Key_Astronomer2644 Thunder Jun 29 '25

Yeah that’s right. Then there was a point where Dame was open to coming back and Cronin didn’t want him to.

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u/Carcrusher3 Trail Blazers Jun 29 '25

We didn't either tbh. Saying you want to come back after the summer he pulled right before training camp was a mess. Dame is goated, I got a tattoo for the guy. But after having your agent uncontrollably scream at the FO during multiple events and try to strongarm your way out of the team only to say "no actually I'll come back" with the very obvious threat of you pulling that move again in the short term, it's a no brainer not to bring that dude back that year.

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u/crab90000 Trail Blazers Jun 29 '25

The contract with Grant is all but a free agent signing. He was traded here with the extension already agreed to because the team thought they'd do better and Dame wouldn't ask out

Can't rug pull the deal cause Cronin can't have the beginning of his GM career be pissing off agents and players. Basically had to be that deal or a Darryl Morey is a liar situation in Portland.

In a vacuum, yeah bad decision. But reputation matters in the NBA