Minnesota Cost Themselves A Championship 🤯 #kevingarnett #timberwolves #short #nba

Minnesota Cost Themselves A Championship 🤯 #kevingarnett #timberwolves #short #nba

The most expensive find in NBA history completely ruined Kevin Garnett’s Prime the Minnesota Timberwolves were on to something great in the late ’90s but kg needed more help to push his team to Greatness luckily for them they were able to get former number one overall pick Joe Smith to agree to a one-year

1.75 million contract which was more than just a little odd Joe Smith was 23 years old and he had just turned down an $80 million extension with the Warriors in order to join Minnesota you see unlike the MLB the NBA has a strict salary cap meaning that even if the

Timberwolves wanted to pay Joe Smith 80 million they couldn’t as it would cause them to go over their spending limit the Timberwolves instead crafted a plan to pay Smith under the table for 3 years and then reward him with a lucrative $86 million contract for his cooperation but

Minnesota was sloppy they were caught before Smith finished his third year and David Stern brought the hammer down hard not only were the Timberwolves fine $3.5 million the largest fine in NBA history but their owner was suspended and they were stripped of five first round draft picks from 2001