{"id":487962,"date":"2026-02-18T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487962\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:14:09","slug":"timberwolves-sign-mike-conley-jr-after-being-waived-by-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487962\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves sign Mike Conley Jr. after being waived by Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Minnesota<\/p>\n

Mike Conley Jr. averaged 4.4 points and 2.9 assists over 44 games with Minnesota this season before being traded twice and waived.<\/p>\n

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Timberwolves finalized their cost-cutting move with point guard Mike Conley Jr. by signing the 19th-year veteran on Wednesday, two weeks after trading him away.<\/p>\n

Conley was first sent in a\u00a0three-team deal<\/a>\u00a0to the Chicago Bulls, who then packaged him with Coby White\u00a0in a swap<\/a>\u00a0with the Charlotte Hornets the following day. The day after that, Conley was waived.<\/p>\n

Being traded twice made Conley eligible to rejoin the Timberwolves, who were thus able to sign him to a minimum contract after lowering their luxury tax bill beneath the first apron by jettisoning his original salary.<\/p>\n

Getting under the first apron and the rules around it allowed the Timberwolves the salary cap flexibility to acquire guard Ayo Dosunmu in a\u00a0separate deal\u00a0with the Bulls.<\/p>\n

Conley\u2019s production and playing time have dwindled this season, but he has long been a revered presence on the team for his leadership, savvy and experience.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a four-time winner of the NBA Sportsmanship Award and a two-time teammate of the year honoree by the league.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves (34-22) are in sixth place in the Western Conference. They host the Dallas Mavericks on Friday in their first game after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Conley Jr. averaged 4.4 points and 2.9 assists over 44 games with Minnesota this season before being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,246731],"class_list":["post-487962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports","tag-timberwolves-sign-mike-conley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}