Latest NBA Trade Rumors: Minnesota Timberwolves Interested With Taj Gibson Of The Chicago Bulls

The slow start of the Minnesota Timberwolves continues this NBA season and their new head coach, Tom Thibodeau is looking to fast pace their development by acquiring veteran players like Taj Gibson from the Chicago Bulls.

The Timberwolves' really had high expectations from the league and its fans for this season. After locking in their key young core composed of Karl Anthony-Towns, Andrew Wiggins and Zach Lavine and acquiring a defensive-minded coach like Tom Thibodeau a lot were expected from this team. However, that hasn't been the case during this season.

Latest trade reports suggest that coach Tom has had enough and is now searching for players that are already familiar with his system. The most recent in the list is the power forward, Taj Gibson.

Aside from Taj, there were early rumors circulating about Bulls' small forward, Jimmy Butler and also Lakers' forward, Luol Deng moves to the Timberwolves. All players were part of the recent success of the Bulls. Unfortunately, due to many failures to reach the Finals, the team decided to let go some of their key players and their coach.

Amongst the three, Taj seems to be the best option for the Timberwolves value wise. If a potential trade will take place, the Timberwolves will send either forward Gorgui Dieng or center Nikola Pekovic to the Bulls.

Both teams will gain from this trade but more for the Timberwolves, as Taj Gibson will add experience and defensive effort to the Timberwolves. Despite having three of the future stars of the league, many believe that they lack veteran leadership to take the team to another level of success.

For the Bulls, it is more likely that they will pick Dieng over Pekovic as they previously had an interest in him in the NBA draft three years ago. However, they chose shooting guard, Tony Snell rather than picking up the forward.

There were already earlier reports that linked both teams for potential trades. It is no doubt that these two teams will be in a serious discussion on whether they will seal a deal.

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