Russell's numbers that season took a dramatic leap from the prior season. That was the lone year Russell made the All-Star team as an alternate.
Russell played in a contract year before, during the 2018-19 season when he was with the Nets. He's really done a good job in practice leadership wise, saying the right things." "He's had the exact right attitude and approach," Finch said. If there was any tension or acrimony over how the last several months played out, there has been no public indication of it. That hasn't happened with Russell, who has been upbeat with his public comments since the summer. This kind of situation - a former All-Star who was benched in the final minutes of a critical game, the subject of trade rumors, and someone who didn't receive a contract he wanted - had the potential to be awkward or combustible. You might not be going about things the right way, or ways you would be going about it if it wasn't a contract year." You see guys approaching a contract year and doing it incorrectly, and it becomes magnified if you're doing it incorrectly. "Every year my approach is the same," Russell said at the team's media day. He didn't get that, but the Wolves also didn't trade him, and chose to hang on to him after acquiring center Rudy Gobert from Utah.Īnd when the Wolves take the floor Wednesday night in their NBA season opener, Russell will be announced as the starting point guard. Russell was entering the final year of a maximum contract he signed in the summer of 2019, a contract which will pay him more than $30 million this season.īefore last season, Russell said he was treating that season like a contract year and was hopeful for an extension. There was thinking that Russell wouldn't return to the Wolves at all.Ī trade seemed likely.
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Russell struggled most of the series against the Grizzlies and wouldn't return to the game, a 114-106 loss that ended Minnesota's season. D'Angelo Russell was on the Target Center floor with five minutes to play in Game 6 of the Timberwolves' series against Memphis and the score tied at 97.īut with 4 minutes, 53 seconds remaining in the must-win game, coach Chris Finch sent Jordan McLaughlin in for Russell, who was 3-for-7 from the field with four assists and four turnovers, one of which had just led to a Memphis three-pointer.
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