How do you evaluate the Love for Wiggins trade?

Unless Wiggins can win 2 championships for Minny there's no need for further evaluation.

 

Not really, not like Minny was going to win a championship with Love. Now they have a future with a strong core. Win for both teams

 

Once Wiggins is an All star and gets tge Wolves to the playoffs, then it is a fair trade. Otherwise, Cavs definitely won.

 

Cavs. Timberwolves will never get by Warriors, Spurs, Rockets, OKC.

 

good trade for both. wolves were never going to get better value for love when better players have been traded for much less than a #1 overall pick, and a decently hyped one at that. and cavs weren't going to give a 19 year old on the job training in lebron's prime and only had one all-star on the market and didn't have any intermediate-value assets to acquire one with. had to make the trade. wiggins certainly hasn't provided love's offensive value from spreading the floor and most everyone seems to think wiggins hasn't been much defensively, which is common for young players.

the trade only looks pretty iffy now because the warriors sprang up and basically rendered slow white big guys obsolete. unless you predicted the rise of the warriors, then it was a good trade to make.

 

good deal for both teams.

cavs needed a win now player and wiggins was not a win now player. they couldn't afford to wait until he developed into a star.

the cavs actually winning a title reinforced that.

minnesota got a talented player to add with other young talented players for the future and have one of the the brightest futures in the nba with the bucks.

 

Good for both. Don't forget that Love was wanting out anyways. Getting Wiggins was the best deal possible. Plenty of time in their window with him and KAT. Wolves have the talent, just need time.

 

Obviously the Cavs benefited. I doubt the T-Wolves could have gotten more than Wiggins in a trade with another team.

 

Last years title and soon to be 3 straight finals appearances makes it a lopsided win for the cavs unless the Wolves do the same. It's like the grizzlies trading Gasol to the lakers in 2008. It doesn't matter that Marc became good unexpectedly. That trade led a slightly above average lakers team to 3 straight finals and 2 titles so it was a lopsided lakers win.

 

Without a doubt, the Cavs made the right move. They need that rebounder. The Wolves are young, but they're going to get better. Sure Love would have made them a more experienced team, but I'm not sure they draft Karl Anthony Towns if Love is still there and we all know that was a great pick. I don't know, I can't imagine either side where there'd be a scenario where both were better without the trade.

 

Love wanted out of Minnesota and he got his wish, ended up winning a championship in the process. Minnesota was in rebuild mode and Love didn't really fit into their plans. Love is a solid number 3 piece to a championship team but he's not a number one guy and Minnesota realized this. Wiggins has the potential to become a top 10 player in the NBA and if he reaches this level then you would have to say that both teams benefited from the trade.

 

Cavs going to 3 straight Finals.

What do you think?

 

Cavaliers won that trade easily, Wiggins is basically a scrub right now. I can't believe how bad he is on defense and at rebounding.

 

Right now it's the Cavs, could change depending on how Wiggin pans out. But right now Love is still the better player by a decent margin.

 

good move for both teams definitely. love wasn't going to stay in minny anyway. they got a good player for him to go along with their youth rebuild.

 

You'd have to remind me what was available when Cleveland landed then paid Love. Because, Wiggins, as overrated as he is IMO, would have been locked-in on a tiny rookie deal giving Cleveland the ability to sign a different max-level player of Love's caliber.

 

Cavs got the better of the trade BY FAR if you look at it in isolation. I mean they took Anthony Bennett as one of the pieces in return - surely something better than him was available!!

However, if you look at the bigger picture, without trading Love away, the TWolves win 30some games and don't get the number 1 pick to land Towns. Towns is a franchise player in a way that Love simply cannot be, and so the TWolves get their piece, and due to the trade have Wiggins to put alongside him.

Worked out ok for Minnesota.

 

At first I thought the deal was a clear ripoff for Cleveland, I mean Wiggins had "baby Lebron" hype and KLove was somebody who was gonna leave the Wolves anyway. Why couldn't the Cavs sign another max free agent and keep Wiggins? There was an FA bonanza the summer after the trade, how good would have Cavs be if they signed a dude like LMA or Klove in the summer and still kept Wiggins or traded him for someone else? But Wiggins hasn't really turned into a superstar so trading him didn't turn out to be a loss, and the Cavs hole at SG forced them to take a look at Smith who turned out to be a great difference maker. Of course Klove helped a lot to win a ring last year and is playing great for this year so it ended up a win for the Cavs.

Its no question a win for the Wolves. What do you mean wiggins has to win a ring or become an allstar? Love was gonna leave regardless if the wolves kept him or not. Wolves traded someone who was gonna leave into the no 1 pick, it was the best move they've done since forever.

 

Kevin Love looked like a shell of himself the first year and was injured for the finals. In last years' finals, he shot 36% from the field and 26% from 3 for 8.5 pts/game, 6.8 rbs/game, to go along with crappy defense. "Cleveland obvious won the trade" is jibberish. They won in spite of Kevin Love. I'm not sure what happens if you replace Love with Wiggins but I do know their title window would be extended. If he'd been groomed as a defender FIRST and then tertiary playmaker, and logged his minutes at SG instead of SF, maybe he'd be a great fit against the Warriors. I voted "both teams won" because the Wolves got a future superstar (he's a year away) and the Cavs literally won. But to say it was lopsided in CLE's favor? No.