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Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> general manager Matt Llyod praised LaMelo Ball, whom he said is a \u201chard worker\u201d who creates tons of \u201cpositive energy.\u201d<\/p>\n The Timberwolves sent big man Naz Reid plus a package of draft picks and pick swaps for Ball and Josh Green, who was later rerouted to the Utah Jazz in a salary dump<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was a massive trade for the Timberwolves, who got a secondary star for franchise icon Anthony Edwards as the club looks to win its first NBA<\/a> Championship this season.<\/p>\n Timberwolves GM Praises LaMelo Ball<\/p>\n Speaking to KSTP Sports<\/a>, Lloyd revealed that Ball has been in the Timberwolves training facility all summer long and that the team is extremely excited for him to join the squad this season.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s been in there 90 percent of the day since the day we acquired him. He\u2019s a hard worker, an incredibly focused worker, and he creates an atmosphere of positive energy,\u201d Lloyd said.<\/p>\n Between Edwards and Ball, the Timberwolves have two players who can easily average over 20 points per game. On top of that, they have two All-NBA defenders in Rudy Gobert and Jaden McDaniels, plus newly acquired forward Jonathan Kuminga and recently extended Ayo Dosunmu, as the Timberwolves look to chase a title with a stacked roster.<\/p>\n GM Excited For Cody Williams<\/p>\n This summer, the Timberwolves added Cody Williams in the Green salary dump, and Lloyd says the team is going to give him every opportunity to win a job with the club.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a reason he was the 10th pick in the draft. We\u2019re going to get a chance to see it here start Tuesday and then take it into the preseason and see what type of role he can etch out,\u201d Lloyd said.<\/p>\n Overall, Timberwolves fans have a lot to be excited about this season, as the club should be one of the top-six teams in the NBA Western Conference and thus earn an automatic playoff berth.<\/p>\n There are a lot of really good teams in the West this year, but don\u2019t count the Timberwolves out of making a long postseason run with Ball.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tAdam Martin<\/a> Adam Martin is a sports journalist with over 15 years of experience. He has a speciality in MMA, while also covering the Big 4 Sports. Adam is currently a contributor to Heavy.com, with previous experience working for The Toronto Star, Sportsnet, theScore, Bookies, BJPenn.com, and MMAOddsbreaker.com. More about Adam Martin<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Timberwolves\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty LaMelo Ball Timberwolves Minnesota Timberwolves general manager Matt Llyod praised LaMelo Ball, whom he said is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-835861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835861","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=835861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}