After adding Jimmy Butler, Taj Gibson and Jeff Teague, the Minnesota Timberwolves are bound to call it a summer.
Or maybe not.
According to Eurohoops.net’s Niko Varlas, the TimberBulls have eyes for Milos Teodosic, who is widely considered the best playmaker not in the NBA:
However, Teodosic will not play in Europe next season and Minessota already made their move and initiated talks with him. Teodosic can share the point guard position with Jeff Teague and he will find in the roster his teammate in the Serbian national team Nemanja Bjelica.
The Miami Heat can also be considered a possible destination for Teodosic, however so far the Timberwolves and the Bulls are the teams that have demonstrated the biggest interest in signing him.
The Timberwolves still have the mid-level exception to work with, and Teodosic has spoken in the past about wanting to play for a potential winner, so this might track. Head coach and president Tom Thibodeau still needs another point guard after dealing away both Ricky Rubio and Kris Dunn, and Teodosic, as a bigger guard who can play off Teague in lineups that’ll have enough defense behind them, poses an interesting fit.
But the Serbian’s future has been a very fluid process. He’s been linked to a number of teams, with chatter seemingly changing by the day. We’ll likely have to wait for other big free-agency dominoes to fall, and for potential suitors to get a better hold on the lay of the land, before anything concrete comes of Teodosic’s next move.
