Minnesota Timberwolves Receive: PG Kyrie Irving, C Brook Lopez<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Clippers Receive: C Rudy Gobert<\/p>\n
Dallas Mavericks Receive: F Derrick Jones Jr., F Bogdan Bogdanovi\u0107, C Joan Beringer, 2029 first-round pick (unprotected from Clippers via Indiana Pacers)<\/p>\n
The Mavs have pivoted to a rebuild around Cooper Flagg, meaning the franchise and Kyrie Irving should work together to find a new home for the 34-year-old point guard.<\/p>\n
Irving missed this season due to a torn ACL, but will have had a full year-and-a-half of recovery time when training camp kicks off in September. He should be more than 100 percent ready.<\/p>\n
Last year, Irving was an All-Star who averaged 24.7 points, 4.8 rebounds, 4.6 assists, 1.3 steals and shot 40.1 percent from three. Adding him to a T-Wolves team with Anthony Edwards, Julius Randle, Jaden McDaniels, Naz Reid and others would give Minnesota an answer to its point guard dilemma while Lopez helps fill the void left from Gobert’s departure.<\/p>\n
The Clippers are now searching for a center since trading Ivica Zubac to the Pacers at the deadline. Even at 33, Gobert remains an elite defender, as the Timberwolves have held opponents to 11.4 fewer points per 100 possessions with him on the floor (99th percentile, via Cleaning the Glass<\/a>). Kawhi Leonard, Darius Garland, Gobert, Benedict Mathurin, Bradley Beal and Kris Dunn could be a special core in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n Dallas primarily does the trade to acquire the future unprotected first-rounder, as they’ve already sent away many of their own when building teams around Luka Don\u010di\u0107. Jones and Bogdanovi\u0107 can be kept as rotation pieces or shopped to contenders and Beringer, 19, was the 17th overall pick in the 2025 draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves Receive: PG Kyrie Irving, C Brook Lopez Los Angeles Clippers Receive: C Rudy Gobert Dallas Mavericks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-601069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}