{"id":815540,"date":"2026-08-16T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815540\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:16:18","slug":"sb-nation-reacts-the-answer-isnt-more-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815540\/","title":{"rendered":"SB Nation Reacts: The Answer Isn\u2019t More Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When posed the question of adding veterans to fill out the roster, the majority of voters (59%) felt it wasn\u2019t necessary. This offseason has seen the loss of Mike Conley (Boston), Kyle Anderson (Toronto), and Joe Ingles (Australia) already, thus leaving Rudy Gobert, Donte DiVincenzo, and newly added Trey Lyles as the lone 30-year-olds on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Since Anthony Edwards joined the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2020-2021 season, there have been various \u201ckey locker room voices\u201d that have helped guide the young star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The community believes that it\u2019s time for Anthony Edwards himself to be the \u201cveteran voice\u201d now. The 25-year-old is now entering his seventh season in the league and has demonstrated some of his offseason leadership. He has been as vocal as he\u2019s ever been about building team chemistry over the summer, and he\u2019s put his words into action. He spearheaded a trip to visit Rudy Gobert, who\u2019s six years his elder, for team bonding excursion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It should also be of note that LaMelo Ball, despite some of the negative perceptions of him, was known to be an outstanding locker room presence for the Charlotte Hornets as well. Many current players still on the Hornets have <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/kon-knueppel-reveals-misses-former-173019505.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACe1MQVkZAul3oBAyDeMJPInVB-SI8uY5vFFL7CcgyKUmsBqJ6E_8flcDLrnM7igZzgHx1uzWFzbrOh9M6Oq_SKCQNfgxZLg1HCuihzYWKVCUNXdxECBXLI7xpWsgbEa2No-LizgSYTPp96ts2LLECMSFInn8SG9Ay_FdaDv9CP7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently lamented his loss<\/a>, saying that he was a great connector of people on and off the court. A bottle of optimistic energy that was a welcome presence on the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">If the Timberwolves don\u2019t fill out their roster with new \u201cvets,\u201d then who will be the final players that make the team? In the comments section, names such as Kevin Love, Ben Simmons, and Willie Cauley-Stein popped up. Even some of our own brave community members volunteered as tribute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _174s0una _1mt21p01\">Who ultimately rounds out the Wolves roster now becomes the final question as we barrel towards training camp next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When posed the question of adding veterans to fill out the roster, the majority of voters (59%) felt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99,346148],"class_list":["post-815540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-timberwolves-roster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}