{"id":682623,"date":"2026-03-27T18:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/682623\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:39:15","slug":"timberwolves-might-lose-former-1st-round-pick-for-unfortunate-roster-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/682623\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves might lose former 1st-round pick for unfortunate roster reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timberwolves might lose former 1st-round pick for unfortunate roster reason<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> could find themselves in a roster crunch that isn’t their own doing.<\/p>\n

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The NBA is looking to expand, and if that happens, it means an expansion draft.<\/p>\n

An expansion draft (likely for Seattle and Las Vegas) would result in a fun process for neutral fans, albeit one that the top teams’ fans might not like. Each team will get to protect a certain amount of players (potentially eight) that can’t be selected.<\/p>\n

Anyone who isn’t protected can be chosen by a new franchise, although probably only one player taken from each team.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves, who are not alone in this problem, might have more than eight players they’d like to protect. That’s what happens in building a deep roster.<\/p>\n

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With no expansion, it’d be a non-issue.<\/p>\n

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With expansion, it means the Timberwolves could lose a strong player. The Sporting News’ Stephen Noh projects<\/a> that it would be Terrence Shannon Jr.<\/p>\n

“The Wolves have been reluctant to trade Shannon, who hasn’t played a ton for them but has shown some scoring prowess in his second year,” Noh wrote in a new mock expansion draft that he put out this week. “They might lose him for nothing. They’re another good team that has more than eight players they’d like to protect. “<\/p>\n

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Shannon has lots of offensive talent and could reach a potentially higher ceiling if he had more usage with an expansion team than he does with the star-driven Timberwolves.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean Minnesota would want to lose him, but it might be an unavoidable problem if an expansion draft does indeed arrive.<\/p>\n

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