Minnesota Timberwolves fantasy basketball season recap

by Zak Hanshew, Rotoworld

Previous team recaps: DET, WAS, POR, CHA, SAS, TOR, MEM, UTA, BKN, ATL, CHI, HOU, SAC, GSW, MIA, PHI, ORL, LAL, IND, CLE, PHX, NOR, MIL, NYK, LAC

At a glance:

Record: 56-26 (3rd, West) 

Offensive Rating: 114.6 (17th)

Defensive Rating: 108.4 (1st) 

Net Rating: 6.2 (3rd) 

Pace: 97.7 (23rd) 

2024 NBA Draft Picks: 27, 37

After a disappointing 2022-23 campaign, Minnesota delivered one of its best seasons in franchise history. Minnesota went 46-36 in 2021-22, but the team finished 42-40 in Rudy Gobert’s first season and got bounced in the first round of the playoffs. The Wolves went 56-26 for a third straight winning season and finished just one game behind Oklahoma City for the best record in the West.

Anthony Edwards had a monstrous 2022-23, but he broke out this season, cementing himself as one of the NBA’s best young stars as he led his team past the defending champs in the Western Conference semifinals and guided Minnesota to its first Western Conference Finals appearance in 20 years.

Led by Defensive Player of the Year Gobert, the Wolves sported the NBA’s best defense, and Edwards provided an elite scoring punch on the other end of the floor. Minnesota has a number of strong fantasy options, and as it stands now, the team will run it back with mostly the same group in 2024-25. How should fantasy managers treat Timberwolves players in next season’s fantasy drafts?

Fantasy Standout: Anthony Edwards

After a tremendous Year 3 and a strong showing in the playoffs (albeit in only one round played), expectations were high for Ant-Man heading into the 2023-24 campaign. He did not disappoint.

Edwards finished 30th in per-game fantasy value behind averages of 25.9 points, 5.4 boards, 5.1 assists, 1.3 steals, 0.5 blocks and 2.4 triples while shooting 46.1% from the floor and 83.6% from the charity stripe. The points, assists and shooting percentages were all career-bests for the fourth-year man out of Georgia.

Edwards logged 79 games, and he’s appeared in at least 72 contests in all four years of his career. He’s been a top-70 player in total fantasy value in four straight, and…

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Publish date : 2024-06-17 12:00:48

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