Mike Conley is officially back with the Timberwolves, agreeing to a rest-of-season deal with the team he was traded from just two weeks ago, a source confirmed.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old guard will be on the floor when Minnesota resumes post all-star break practice on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
After Minnesota \u201csent\u201d Conley to Chicago in a three-team deal days ahead of the trade deadline to shed salary, Conley was then re-routed to Charlotte, who ultimately waived the veteran guard.<\/p>\n
Because there was a second stop between Minnesota and waivers, the Timberwolves were eligible to re-sign the veteran guard this season.<\/p>\n
Conley could\u2019ve signed anywhere, but with his family settled in the metro, his strong ties to his teammates and a team in title contention, he opted to return to the Wolves. There was an understanding Conley would re-join Minnesota shortly after he was waived, but the reunion was delayed for salary cap reasons until after the all-star break.<\/p>\n
The Wolves had to add a 14th player by Tuesday to be compliant with NBA roster regulations. Conley was the obvious addition.<\/p>\n
Conley\u2019s role with the Wolves remains to be seen after Minnesota acquired Ayo Dosunmu at the deadline. The versatile guard commands 20-plus minutes per game, which little extra tick available beyond the top seven members of the rotation.<\/p>\n
But even if he doesn\u2019t play much, Conley\u2019s voice and guidance will be valuable for Minnesota over the final third of the regular season and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Conley is officially back with the Timberwolves, agreeing to a rest-of-season deal with the team he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,371,307,152,3954,6,66,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-608499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-mike-conley","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","12":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}