Julius Randle sits inside a narrowing Minnesota Timberwolves trade picture, and Ja Morant is not on the list that surfaced this spring. The reported gap matters because the Wolves are being linked to veteran help, but not to every big name attached to offseason speculation.
Jon Krawczynski said the list of veterans the Wolves have discussed this spring includes Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kyrie Irving, Trey Murphy III, Josh Giddey, Derrick White and many more. He also wrote that every team in the league is considering veteran help, and that interest in a player does not mean any potential trades have ever been close.
Jon Krawczynski’s five names
The number that matters here is five names, plus the catch-all “many more.” That is the clearest sign the Wolves’ search is broad rather than built around one target. In that framing, the absence of Morant is not a small footnote; it changes which rumors have weight and which ones do not.
Krawczynski’s quote draws the line bluntly: “The list of veterans whom the Wolves have discussed this spring includes the Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Dallas Mavericks’ Kyrie Irving, the New Orleans Pelicans’ Trey Murphy III, the Chicago Bulls’ Josh Giddey, the Boston Celtics’ Derrick White and many more. A couple of important caveats are that every team in the league is considering veteran help, and that having interest in a player does not mean any potential trades have ever been close.”
Ja Morant and Minnesota
That quote sits next to the cleaner read on Minnesota’s current posture: Morant was not among the explicitly listed targets. The Athletic previously reported that Minnesota had shown some level of interest in him, but that interest was never framed as a completed plan or a close deal.
Put together, the two reports sketch a narrower trade map for the Minnesota Timberwolves. They leave room for more names under “many more,” but they also push Morant out of the most concrete tier of discussion and back into the wider offseason rumor pool.
Veteran help for the Wolves
For readers tracking the Wolves’ roster planning, the practical takeaway is simple: the discussion is about veteran help, not a single chase. Giannis seems unlikely, Kyrie Irving is unavailable, and the rest of the list sits somewhere between curiosity and real possibility.
That is where the story lands for now. Morant remains a player some Wolves fans would circle, but the reported list of five names points elsewhere, and the next wave of speculation will have to be read against that narrower set of targets.
