NBA Trade Rumors: Wolves asking price for Jimmy Butler ‘too high’

NBA Trade Rumors: The Minnesota Timberwolves’ asking price for Jimmy Butler is reportedly still ‘too high’ for bidding teams

And the Minnesota Timberwolves continue to play a game of chicken with the handful of teams that are bidding for Jimmy Butler.

As the power struggle between the player an team/coach continues, it appears the Wolves – or Tom Thibodeau – is hard set on not just trading Butler just because he wants to be on a different team.

Thibs has set an asking price, and he is not moving off it. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the asking price is still ‘too steep’ for teams. Which is quite curious at this point in the holdout, which is leaving teams to believe whether Thibs wants to find a trade partner right now.

Originally, Thibs didn’t want to deal Butler. He was against it at the beginning, and how couldn’t he be? He’s the head coach and needs to win to keep his job. Jimmy Butler being on his team helps that cause, and losing him, especially for pennies on the dollar, will only make his team worse.

And that’s bad news for the prospects of him keeping his job in the long run.

Maybe this entire exercise teaches the rest of the NBA owners a lesson that coaches should not have general manager power. Thibs is on record stating that he’d rather roll the dice on losing him next summer, rather than trading Jimmy Butler right now.

With that knowledge out there, how is it possible for him to find a trade? Thibs could very well be sabotaging this entire process for all we know. And this could just be the tip of the iceberg of what’s really going on behind the scenes in Minnesota.

Hopefully, this all ends sooner rather than later. For the sake of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Jimmy Butler.