{"id":17650,"date":"2018-11-10T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T19:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=17650"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:13:13","slug":"minnesota-timberwolves-trade-jimmy-butler-to-philadelphia-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2018\/11\/10\/minnesota-timberwolves-trade-jimmy-butler-to-philadelphia-76ers\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves Trade Jimmy Butler to Philadelphia 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to multiple reports, The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/minnesota-timberwolves\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota\u00a0Timberwolves<\/a> have traded former All-Star guard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/butleji01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jimmy Butler<\/strong><\/a> and their\u00a016th pick in the 2017 draft, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pattoju01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Justin<\/strong> <strong>Patton<\/strong><\/a>, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadephia\u00a076ers<\/a> in exchange for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/covinro01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Robert<\/strong> <strong>Covington<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/saricda01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dario<\/strong> <strong>Saric<\/strong><\/a> and a future 2022 2nd round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Shams Charania first broke the news earlier today on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minnesota has traded Jimmy Butler and Justin Patton to Philadelphia for Robert, Covington, Dario Saric and a 2022 second-round draft pick, league sources tell me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonKrawczynski?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JonKrawczynski<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1061315746444312577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<h1><strong>Minnesota Timberwolves Trade Jimmy Butler to Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><strong>The Wait is Over<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>Late September, Jimmy Butler requested a trade from the Timberwolves. Resulting in numerous possible trade scenarios and speculations of where he possibly end up. After a more than a month of trade speculations and drama, the Philadelphia\u00a076ers finally struck a deal. Sending two big pieces of their team, in Robert Covington and Dario Saric, along with a future 2022 2nd round draft pick to the Wolves in exchange for Jimmy Butler and Patton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jimmy Butler is expected to sign a long-term extension with the team when he can opt out of his current contract in July. That offer could get to as much as a 5-year $190 million dollar contract.<\/p>\n<p>This trade can be seen as a Win for both teams. As the Timberwolves gain youth in Dario Saric, 24, who is only in his 3rd year in the league. As well as an NBA All-Defensive small forward in Robert Covington. The Sixers, of course, get a huge piece in Jimmy Butler, forming what they hope to be a new Big Three in the east, consisting of Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons and now Jimmy Butler.<\/p>\n<p>This trade is going to have an immediate impact on the NBA playoff landscape as a whole. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/#\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Western Conference<\/a> is now minus an All-Star, and in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/#\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East<\/a>, the 76ers are much more of a threat to the top-seeded teams in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/milwaukee-bucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milwaukee\u00a0Bucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0Timberwolves have traded Jimmy Butler in a package to the Philadephia\u00a076ers in exchange for Robert Covington, Dario Saric&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2847,"featured_media":17660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"285","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1608,62,13,14],"tags":[65,142,214,96,225],"class_list":["post-17650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-timberwolves","category-basketball","category-nba","category-76ers","category-raptors","tag-basketball","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179461,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions\/179461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}