{"id":827118,"date":"2026-08-27T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827118\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:12:08","slug":"multiple-team-sources-speaking-under-condition-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827118\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple team sources, speaking under condition of \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolves have been looking for a prototypical power forward ever since trading Julius Randle and Naz Reid during a busy offseason that also brought LaMelo Ball to Minnesota. <a data-ylk=\"slk:Multiple team sources, speaking under condition of anonymity to discuss the team&#039;s private recruiting efforts, outlined the work done over the summer that helped the Timberwolves beat out other suitors for Kuminga&#039;s services.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Multiple team sources, speaking under condition of anonymity to discuss the team&#039;s private recruiting efforts, outlined the work done over the summer that helped the Timberwolves beat out other suitors for Kuminga&#039;s services.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7468451\/2026\/08\/26\/jonathan-kuminga-timberwolves-nba-free-agency\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Multiple team sources, speaking under condition of anonymity to discuss the team&#8217;s private recruiting efforts, outlined the work done over the summer that helped the Timberwolves beat out other suitors for Kuminga&#8217;s services.<\/a> Tim Connelly, Timberwolves president of basketball operations, had extended conversations with Kuminga and agent Aaron Turner throughout the summer, including flying to Miami for a face-to-face meeting with Kuminga, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wolves have been looking for a prototypical power forward ever since trading Julius Randle and Naz Reid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[28772,32309,6424,25179,78366,355,99,179575,76496,6427],"class_list":["post-827118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-aaron-turner","tag-condition","tag-julius-randle","tag-lamelo-ball","tag-naz-reid","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-the-wolves","tag-tim-connelly","tag-timberwolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827118","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=827118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}