{"id":180651,"date":"2021-02-17T19:31:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dangelo-russells-trade-to-timberwolves-cursed-since-the-start\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:31:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:31:33","slug":"dangelo-russells-trade-to-timberwolves-cursed-since-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dangelo-russells-trade-to-timberwolves-cursed-since-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"#D’Angelo Russell’s trade to Timberwolves cursed since the start"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#D’Angelo Russell’s trade to Timberwolves cursed since the start<\/strong>”
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Karl-Anthony Towns excitedly waited for D\u2019Angelo Russell at the airport<\/a> last February after the longtime friends were finally NBA teammates.<\/p>\n

The jubilant scene ended with a hug between new teammates and a Timberwolves jersey for Russell after he was dealt from the Warriors to Minnesota for Andrew Wiggins and protected draft picks. <\/p>\n

There has been little to celebrate since, though.<\/p>\n

It was announced on Tuesday night that Russell would need arthroscopic knee surgery and is out the next four-to-six weeks for the 7-21 Timberwolves \u2014\u00a0owners of the NBA\u2019s worst record.<\/p>\n

Towns and Russell \u2014\u00a0the top two picks in the 2015 NBA Draft \u2014\u00a0have now just played five game<\/a>s together since that trade. One of those was in the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season and four this year. According to ESPN.com, the Timberwolves are 2-3 in those games. <\/p>\n

\u201cFive games, that\u2019s not enough,\u201d Towns, who missed 13 games battling COVID-19, told reporters. \u201cThat\u2019s not enough of a sample for us. We want to play every game possible with each other. It\u2019s just unfair we keep having setbacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time of the trade, there were rumblings that Towns was considering a move to force his way out of Minnesota, even though he was in the first season of a five-year extension. The move not only put a talented point guard around Towns, it seemed to quiet any dissatisfaction. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think with D-Lo here, it\u2019s always going to be a big incentive for me to want to stay,\u201d Towns told The Athletic in the days after the trade.<\/a> \u201cD-Lo is a big part of everything the vision is. D-Lo always knows he\u2019s going to be wanted because his brother is here with him and he always knows he\u2019s going to have his back covered because I\u2019m always going to be there for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has not worked out that way yet, though. <\/p>\n

And Towns\u2019 year has been far more devastating than anything that has happ<\/a>ened on the basketball court. He lost his mother, Jacqueline, and six other family members to COVID-19. He had his own \u201cserious\u201d battle with coronavirus that kept him off the court till last week.<\/p>\n

Towns said he was \u201cspooked\u201d when three Hornets players were pulled for health and safety protocols before their game against the Timberwolves last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re kind of going in there hoping that everyone\u2019s healthy and safe and has followed the protocols and the rules,\u201d Towns said. \u201cEven if they do, this virus, this disease doesn\u2019t have a place where it doesn\u2019t work, where it doesn\u2019t affect anybody. You could get it anywhere, any time. You just hope. You go in there and you just hope. Even for a person like me who had the antibodies and I guess you could say is immune to it now, it still registers differently in my mind.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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