Today the Timberwolves officially issued a statement that the team has parted ways with Rosas, the president of basketball operations. This news will surely catch the Wolf Honey off guard, after all, Rosas has only been in office for two years and is currently dealing with the issue of trading for Simmons.
The sudden departure surprised Downs and called out: "Wtf..."
Not only that, but the timing of Rosas' dismissal surprised the Timberwolves players and other staff, as Rosas was in a meeting at the training hall this morning.
Admittedly, in general, NBA teams that want to fire the president of basketball operations will choose to find a new president of operations shortly after the end of the regular season in order to prepare for the draft and the operation of the free market.
Rosas has already arranged the lineup framework for the Timberwolves according to his own team building ideas this summer, but the Wolves decisively fired him before the start of the game, which is really incredible.
At present, Kan Qiujun has collected two reasons for Rosas to leave the team:
One is that in the past few months, according to Timberwolves reporter Dane Moore, there has been a message circulating that the team's two new bosses want to hire a "top five" team manager. Unfortunately, Rosas was not taken in.
Second, according to the famous Shams and Timberwolf reporter Jon Krawczynski, the team found that the married Rosas and a member of the team had a voluntary intimate relationship — which may not be the main reason for the dismissal of Rosas, but this incident affected the timing of the dismissal of Rosas.
Some fans have found that a vice president named Bri Bauer is no longer on the team's official website list, and there are rumors that she is the person who has a close relationship with Rosas.
To say that Rosas is still an executive of the Timberwolves poached from the Houston Rockets, the original purpose was to allow the Timberwolves to follow the Rockets to open up their own team-building style of play, so that the team completely got rid of the fish belly label, but the problem is that Rosas's operation has not made substantial changes to the Timberwolves.
On the contrary, young teams such as the Grizzlies, Knicks, Suns, Eagles and Lone Rangers completed the reconstruction during this period, and the three-piece lineup of Towns, Wiggins and Roses has never been able to improve this team in terms of record.
And some of Roses's operations are even more confusing.
The most famous is the 2019 draft with Saric + No. 11 up trade to get the No. 6 pick Culver.
Honestly speaking, Culver himself should have a certain potential, but after coming to the Timberwolves, he couldn't play at all, there was always a feeling that he could play well but no one pointed out, and he also threw randomly on the court, and finally let the Timberwolves trade him away after two seasons.
The Grizzlies saw the opportunity, and they traded Beverly to the Timberwolves in exchange for Culver and Juan Hernangomez, on the one hand, they dealt with Beverly, and on the other hand, they also saw if Culver's scratching music was "thank you for your patronage" on the other hand.
If Culver does play it out, I'm afraid the Timberwolves will have to leave more than just the president of operations.
In addition to Culver, the joining of Shui La was also planned by Rosas, but from the current point of view, his and Downs's joint efforts do not seem to have received any high-quality results.
Currently, sachin Gupta, the Timberwolves' current executive vice president, is expected to be promoted to the team's interim president of operations, temporarily taking over Rosas' position, while the next chief operating president will have to wait a little longer.
It is said that the timberwolves' new bosses, Mark Lower and Rodriguez, have always been very fond of Philadelphia general manager Elton Brand.
The concept of a son of heaven and a courtier should be understood by everyone, poor is seeking change, the new boss of the Timberwolves is the first time to change the blood for the management, which can also be seen as the team wants to find a new direction of development.
As for whether they can really develop in the end, it depends on whether Huazi can harden up, otherwise no matter how to change the management, it is also to change the soup and not change the medicine.