The Minnesota Timberwolves made their most consequential free agency move, signing veteran forward Joe Ingles to a one-year deal to back-fill the role vacated by Kyle Anderson. Ben Beecken (@bbeecken) discusses the signing and why Ingles is a perfect fit for the Wolves. Plus, PJ Dozier reportedly signed a partially-guaranteed deal, leaving the Wolves with only one open standard roster spot.
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It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Hello, and welcome into another episode of Lockdown Wolves. Today on the show, the Tibrolls made two free agent signings. One really important, a Kyle Anderson replacement for the rotation. We'll talk about that today. We'll also set up the roster sitting here right now. What do the wolves still have to do this offseason? It's all come and welcome in, you are Lockdown Wolves. [MUSIC PLAYING] You are Lockdown Timber Wolves, your daily Minnesota Timber Wolves podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Hello, and welcome to the Lockdown Wolves podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. My name is Ben Beacon. I'm the host of Lockdown Wolves. Today's episode is brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use the code LockdownMBA for $20 off your first purchase terms apply. Happy Thursday, everybody. Happy Independence Day, Fourth of July, if you're in the US, and hopefully you get the chance to take some time off work and, I don't know, I guess enjoy NBA for agency, maybe some baseball or whatever it is that you do, fireworks, whatever you do on the fourth. Enjoy it. Well, of course, still have a show, obviously, today, and then also tomorrow, we're still daily throughout the month of July. Lots to cover and related to free agency. The Wolves made what is likely to be their most consequential free agent move of the offseason on Wednesday. So we're going to talk about that here today. We'll reset the roster and where we sit right now, what the Wolves might still do this offseason, what they might not do as well. So we'll get to all that here today. A big thank you off the top for making Lockdown Wolves your first listen every single day. Of course, this show is free and available everywhere. That includes YouTube as well as all of your favorite audio platforms, wherever you like to listen to podcasts, you can find Lockdown Wolves. You can also watch the Lockdown Sports Minnesota app on both Roku and Amazon Fire TV and you can follow an X at Lockdown T Wolves and also at Bebeacon with two B's, two E's, CK, EN. All right, so the Timber Wolves, like we actually just yesterday on Wednesday on the Minnesota basketball party, we went through a list of guys who the Wolves could look at signing. I had talked on Tuesday about, it was either my dare, I think it was Tuesday about my list of guys. I wanted the Wolves to go after for the minimum and a couple guys I thought would probably get more, a couple guys that were into the roster type guys in a name that I failed to mention on Tuesday that came up in the basketball party and I agreed with this when it came up was Joe Ingalls and I mentioned him in passing, I think it was probably late last week, but I had convinced myself like, hey, just last year, he made 11 million with the magic on a one year deal and the Wolves, Dane Moore, reported on Twitter that he thought the Wolves were offering Ingalls around seven million last year and he took 11 to go to the magic and he had a good year, he's a year older, but I was still surprised that got him for the vet minimum and that's who the Timber Wolves signed on Wednesday that that is going to be, as I said, you know, in the open, the most consequential signing the Wolves make this year, which of course they're not, it's not like they have cap space or anything, but it's a really important addition and I'll get into a little bit what he brings to the table, but just why I neglected to mention it Tuesday, I don't think there's any chance they get him for the vet minimum, you know, I was throwing around Jay Crowder and Reggie Bullock and Prince, who I believe Torrey Prince got the minimum from the box as well, he signed a little bit before Ingalls, you know, names like that, I just didn't think they'd get Ingalls for that, for that price and I'm pleasantly surprised. He certainly would be in that first year of guys that I thought the Wolves should go after. I thought he'd be like, well, anyway, you know, Joe Ingalls is, if you're not familiar with his game, I mean, he's going to be 37 this year. He turns 37 before like basically early October, before the season starts. He's big, he's essentially a combo forward that that's going to play probably most of his minutes with the Wolves at the three, just because of how many true bigs the Wolves have, but he played small ball four, not really small ball four. He played, he played the four for the, Jazz, you know, a fair amount back during his career in Utah. He spent eight seasons with the Jazz, so he played with Rudy Gobert for a long period of time. He played with Mike Conley for several years. And then he spent one year in Milwaukee in 22-23. And that was a, he, so he tore his ACL toward the end of his season in his last season in Utah, 21-22. So he signed with Milwaukee and I didn't play the first portion of the year because the recovery came back, played 46 games and still shot 41% from three. And then that was the Milwaukee team that won, I think, 56 games was the number one seed in the East and then lost to the Heat in five games, of course, battling injuries and all that stuff, but still a one seed losing to an eight seed. Then last year he signed with Orlando and Orlando has, I think pretty much the season people expected, which was a pretty decent one, maybe a little better than people thought they won 47 games, lost in seven to Cleveland in the first round. So Joey Eagles has been in the playoffs most years of his career outside of a couple of, of poor Utah years early on. I mean, yeah, he's been in the playoffs basically every season except for his first two. And he's, he's one of those guys that's just a winning role player. He's a career 41% three point shooter. The, he's only shot below 39% from three one time dating all the way back to his rookie season. And that was his, his, the year in which he tore his ACL during the seasons, who's actually having a portion year before he got hurt. But then the last two years he's bounced back shot 41% with Milwaukee 43 and a half percent last year with Orlando, which is right up there with some of the best seasons of his career. So again, 41% from three for his career. He doesn't give you a whole lot else scoring wise. And that's okay. He doesn't give you a whole lot else on the glass. And that's okay because of some of the other stuff that he provides. He fills the Kyle Anderson role offensively and that he's going to be asked to facilitate a little bit from the forward spot. He had a 23% assist rate last year, which was his highest in three years. He's got a career assist rate of over 21%, which is really high for a guy who technically is an off ball. Like his offensive game is as a catch and shoot three point shooter. Last year, 71% of his field goal attempts were threes. The year before 82% for his career, more than two thirds, or actually pretty much exactly two thirds of his shot attempts have been three pointers. But yet he handles the ball quite a bit in the half court, in the open floor, in the pick and roll, and can find teammates really well. He's such a good passer. Like guys know he's not trying to drive to look for his shot. He's driving to open up shots for others. And yet it's still effective because he's that good of a passer. And he's that good of a catch and shoot three point shooter as well. So I think we'll dig a little bit more into this. I want to dig into like, we'll do a couple of, we've got some time here because I don't think those are going to do a whole lot else move wise until we get to summer league. So I may do this tomorrow, but dig a bit more into the overall, like last offseason I did, like I talked, I did a show a couple shows all about like, Hey, here's who's gone. Jalen well is gone. You know, whoever else they moved off of last year or at least removing McLaughlin from the regular rotation. Some of that stuff replacing them with guys like Troy Brown, Shake Milton, the kill examiner Walker. Here's what the wolves are trying to do in terms of like improving point of attack defense, screen navigation, ball screen navigation, catch a shoot three point shooting. So we'll do one of those looks as well. And basically just kind of say, Hey, look, Joe Ingalls catch and shoot is replacing Kyle Anderson. Like Kyle Anderson didn't make threes last year. This is huge. Now there's shortcomings too. And we'll get a little bit into that like what do Kyle Anderson bring that Joe Ingalls brought can't bring so much of that is on the defensive end. Most of it is. But that feels like the sort of downturn or I guess regression in terms of what the role is that the number one defense in the league by far last year can handle. I think they could absorb going from slow mo to a equally actually apparently according to basketball reference, one of Joe Ingalls nicknames is slow mo Joe. So there you go from slow mo to slow mo Joe Ingalls isn't as good of a defender, but he's okay. He's he's passable on defense. And that's going to be important. I want to talk a little bit more about that. I want to get into a couple more of the rate based stats. And then also my guy Jack Borman who's on the basketball party with us on Wednesdays tweeted out some numbers from synergy that I'll just share those from Jack's tweet. Because I think it again paints the picture of exactly why Tim Connolly in the wolves front office targeted Joe Ingalls as soon as they knew they couldn't get Kyle Anderson. Hey, we'll take a small hit defensively to improve our our offensive to have hopefully equal offensive ball movement as last year's team, but also improve the three point shooting because like, well, we'll get into this more. But I mean, I always talked about how the wolves had two non shooters in the rotation last year. And it was best if they didn't share the floor Rudy and Kyle Anderson as of right now, I don't have any non shooters in this rotation. You know, we'll see what the rookies do, but those guys are supposed to be able to knock down threes. Like this is a team where everybody but Rudy's going to knock down threes. So that's going to be huge as well for the wolves offense. We'll get into all that, including the synergy numbers. Talk about Joe Ingalls overall fit with the wolves. We'll do that here next. Today's episode of lockdown wolves is brought to us by our friends at game time. 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So Joe Ingalls, well, let's talk a little bit about the synergy numbers that our guy, Jack Borman put out on Twitter here on, I guess shortly after the signing. And I like basically it tells a similar story, but with a bit more detail as the rape a stats that I was just mentioning related to his assist rate related to his to his three point rate and three point percentage. So last season only with Orlando purse energy. And again, this is per Jack Borman on Twitter jr Borman 13 go follow him. He was the editor in chief of K to soup is for a long time was on our postcast for about half the season last year did mostly away games and is on our Wednesday basketball party, which by the way, brief plug, if you missed it or if you weren't aware of it, it's actually the last show in the feed before this one. If you're listening to audio, the last show before this is the Minnesota basketball party, we did some free agency reaction and prediction. This, of course, was before the Ingalls signing, but Ingalls comes up in the show. Jack Borman, Reggie Wilson from care 11 Ron Johnson for the Ron Johnson show myself and Sam X term of lockdown sports, Minnesota. So go check it out the episode before this one in your audio feed. So Borman, Jack Borman tweets out Joe Ingalls last season for a Lando purse energy. He averaged 1.52 points for catch and shoot attempt. That's 99th percentile. That's insane. And again, it goes back to he pretty much only shot like what? What did I say? 70% of his three point or his shot attempts for threes? Yeah, 71% of his shot attempts last over threes and the dude shot 43 and a half percent for three. So that's no surprise, but it just tells you how efficient and effective he was on guarded catch and shoot 1.78 points per unguarded catch and shoot 99th percentile. That means he made basically like that this is this is oversimplified. But that means he basically made two thirds of his wide open catch and shoot shots. You know how many wide open shots he's going to get playing with Anthony Edwards and Carl Anthony towns and Rudy go bear on a short roll in the middle of the floor and that how many times was he getting that shot in that Utah offense with Conley and Rudy go bear running pick and roll or Donovan Mitchell running pick and roll in what would now be the ant roll in the middle of the floor and and jingles just stands in the corner and gets his wide open three point shot. And again, we'll dig a bit more into these into the actual, you know, I mentioned the catch and shoot some of the different people index numbers as well. I think we'll do this on Friday's show. But just just incredible. It's the absolute perfect fit. A guy who's not going to miss those wide open catch and shoot shots. We mentioned already 40 43% basically on on three point attempts last year. He generated 1.01 points per possession on pick and rolls with pass with passes. So back to what I said when I first started talking about angles last last segment. He's a really good passer out of the pick and roll 67th percentile. He's not a point guard. He's not somebody who's going to attack you off the dribble and score in the paint. That's not his game yet. He's still effective in picking roll game because he's so crafty. He's he knows exactly, you know, how to snake through the defense and his passes are so good. He has got such good touch on his passing. We talked about the assist rate already. And we can talk about where that stacks up with with last year's wolves team, but an assist rate last year of 23%. Actually, well, let's talk about that. I'm just going to pull it up right now. I didn't actually prepare this, but that if that's going to be really high, that's going to break really high into the rules team last year. So I'm just going to pull it up right now. Overall assist rate. Last year, this would plug him in. What did I say was 24%? 23% assist rate would have slotted him in behind only Mike Conley, Kyle Anderson, who's 25%, Anthony Edwards, and right behind Jordan McLaughlin at 23.7%. So right there with the two point guards, Ant, who's creating a ton in Kyle Anderson, who's replacing, and he's got again, the Joe Ingalls career assist rate is over 21%. He's got a couple years over there over 24%. So it's right in line there with the guys ahead of Monte Morris, ahead of obviously Kat Alexander Walker, we initiated some offense, shake built and all those guys. It's going to be right there. That's the type of player. I'm not saying he's going to be their point guard. I want to be clear about that. What I'm saying is he will give me that same level of offensive distribution production as Kyle Anderson did last year. That's the whole idea is he's replacing that role, but also giving you shooting and where you're taking the hit, it's not an offense. You're taking the hit on defense. And the last thing is assist to turnover that Jack has, 215 assists to 67 turnovers. That's a 3.2 assisted turnover ratio. And again, going back to the rate based stats on basketball reference, 23% assist rate turnover rate was was a little high for him last year. It was just over 22%, but that's actually the worst of his career. The year prior with Milwaukee, just 17%, the year prior with Utah, 13%, he usually was in the 15 to 17% range. For his career, it's just shy of, or just over 18%, excuse me. So turn over rate a little high, but I mean, Kyle Anderson last year, actually, I have it right here. What was Kyle Anderson last year? Yeah, not quite that bad. About 16%. It felt the first half of the year, Kyle Anderson turned the ball over way too much. I think that improved as the year went on. So again, like, and the other thing to point out here, and we're just talking about offense so far, and Ingalls, I think, is an upgrade offensively because he provides the same level of essentially the same level of initiating offense, but he's a catch a chute guy and doesn't need to get to the nail to get a weird push shot off to be effective with the ball in his hands. Teams are going to have to guard Jo Ingalls because of the passing angles and passing ability that Ingalls creates, not because he's going to beat you off the dribble. And when he doesn't have the ball in his hands, he's going to catch and shoot and make these shots almost two points per possession on unguarded shots from the perimeter for Jo Ingalls. He's going to absolutely crush it in this wolf's offense. Jo Ingalls is making the minimum, and Kyle Anderson is getting nine million a year from Golden State. He was making nine million a year with Minnesota. So this is a pretty high percentage of the same production, if not greater production offensively. You're taking a hit defensively. And that's one of the other things Jack has in his tweet. He talks about how he shoots out a pick and rolls, which I already addressed. Like he's not going to score on a pick and rolls, but teams still have to respect the passing ability. He's not going to score at the rim. It's not his game. They have him as 30th percentile among forwards on in terms of defensive EPM, a negative 0.9. So, but, but also like, depending on where you look, like some of the box, plus minus numbers related to his defense, which are taken with the great assault. They're not all encompassing stats. Those are positive. So, I think he could still provide you. He's got size. He's got know how he's got experience. He's not going to be guarding on the perimeter using lateral quickness to guard the point of attack. He's not going to be guarding ball handlers. That's not the idea with Jo Ingalls. I think it could be a fine team defender. And if that's your only, if that if that's the only drawback here, then Jo Ingalls at the vet minimum lined up with Kyle Anderson at whatever he would have made when you factor in. Because remember the penalty for being over the second apron, the nine million would actually be something like, I think close to 30 million is what the wolves would actually pay because of the tax bill. It's there's really no contest here. Like I would actually take Jo Ingalls period over Kyle Anderson. Now, that doesn't factor in some of the the intagibles, the off court stuff, his locker room presence, familiarity, all that stuff does matter. But of course, Jo Ingalls has familiarity with Mike Conley. He's got familiarity with Rudy Gobert. And I just think the three point shooting for a team that yes was very good and finished last year with third in the entire league in three point percentage. I don't want to lose that over this off season. This team was third in three point percentage, but they're only 17th in three point attempts rate. And they didn't shoot enough threes, especially early on in the season. Too many of their three point attempts were just Anthony Edwards off the dribble. He led the team in attempts per game from outside the arc. And of course, cat being hurt for a little while didn't help that. Conley had a career three point shooting year, but there were other they just didn't get enough three point attempts from those other roles on the roster. You slot Joe Ingalls in Kyle Anderson is shooting 0.6 threes a game at 23%. That jumps to three or four threes per game at 40%. That's going to have a positive impact on your offense. Okay, I want to talk about the wolves other signing will briefly reset the roster. And then I want to send I want to spend Friday really digging into kind of the the point I made earlier about like, hey, the only guy in the rotation that's not shooting threes effectively now or not a threat is Rudy go bear. I want to talk more about that and then and then kind of that like layout. What's going out in terms of Kyle Anderson, Montes Morris, apparently now Jordan McLaughlin, et cetera TJ Warren and what's coming in in the form of the rookies dealing him Shannon and now Joe Ingalls PJ Dozier and then anyone else the wolves might potentially sign. So we'll talk about the spots next and then tomorrow we'll do some of the other kind of overall resetting. So all that here is upcoming. Hey, every day is NBA free agency is here and coverage doesn't stock with your team locked on NBA will be here for you every day of the offseason with quick hitting 30 minute recaps of all the news and rumors in the NBA. Make locked on NBA your second listen and stay caught up on the biggest off season storylines and free agency signings every day available on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts part of the locked on podcast network your team every day. All right. So the table is also signed PJ Dozier on Wednesday and this was a bit of a weird one to me. It's reportedly and I'm forgetting where I saw it and I feel bad for not citing this correctly but there was a um a report that it's only a partial guarantee for PJ Dozier which makes sense but it's also weird because uh well if it's a partial guarantee then I guess there's a chance that they could look look at this as a training camp deal. I guess I'm not 100% sure. So when it was initially announced it was just to kind of assume it was a minimum deal which would mean the wolves have 14 guys on standard contracts and only one open roster spot in terms of standard contracts. They would have 14 guys booked on contracts one open spot and then we'll talk about the two is here in a second. However if it's only a partial guarantee they could basically treat it like a training camp deal and he gets you know whatever now for being on the roster through training camp and they could sign somebody else to a fully guaranteed deal and then they would have the option of converting Dozier to a deal to fill out the roster with the 15th spot or perhaps he ends up in the glee again which by the way he played in the glee for the wolves not last year but the year prior was overseas last year. So that would be better because frankly it would be a lot more um exciting I guess or like it would seem a lot more functional if they had somebody that they knew what they could provide. The thing with PJ Dozier and I don't mean to I don't mean to uh be unfair to PJ. He was kind of a bouncer on the league guy early on. He played a couple games in Oklahoma City as an undrafted rookie. He played six games in Boston in 18-19, signed in Denver, ended up as a rotation piece for the team that played well in the bubble of the Jean-Marie Breakout and then the following year was a legit rotation piece for them. Started six games was averaging 22 minutes a game um the idea was he could be kind of a 3-and-D wing although the three-point shot never really developed and then he ended up tearing his ACL uh I guess it was the following year he tore his ACL when he was still a rotation piece for them still just shooting 31% from three and then the following year 22-23 he goes to the glee league for the wolves as he's working back ends up playing a bit role for Sacramento then last year he played in Serbia and he didn't really shoot the three all that well in Serbia either. Um I want to say he was around 33% I'll see if I could pull it up real quick. I think he was around 33 yeah he was uh 30 30.1% overall 32.3% on catching shoot threes last year in Serbia for PJ Dozier so he's not a three-point shooter career in the NBA 31% on 273 point shots over parts of six seasons um he's a good defender he's not a great defender I don't frankly I don't really know what they're trying to get out of PJ Dozier clearly Tim Connolly has an affinity for him and I don't know what else he brings to the table from an intangible standpoint he must be great in the locker room he must uh the team must think he's got some upside defensively he is a big like he could facilitate a little bit like he's pretty good as a as a facilitator in pick and roll he's another the wolves like obviously like big players in every position he can go out there and play the two or the three and at six six with a good wingspan and distribute and run the offense a little bit if you need him to I just don't know in what scenario he's going to be your choice to do that when you've got run through the point guards you've got Mike Connolly you've got Anthony Edwards you've got Nikki Alexander Walker you've got Joe Ingalls um all these guys are likely going to be the choice to run the offense before you get to PJ Dozier if he makes the team so this is obviously purely a depth play there's no world in which he's going to automatically be a rotation guy and we'll dig more into the rotation actually we'll do it here in a minute but we'll spend more on it Friday like I'm unclear as to as to what the the plan is here I'm not getting too twisted about it because we're talking about the 10th or 11th or 12th guy on the roster and it's if it is a partial guarantee there could still be another move coming and either way even if it's not and this is a straight vet minimum deal they've still got a an open roster spot I would still be surprised if that's the case say this is a full guarantee or at least they're they're treating this as the 14th player of their roster they could still sign someone else I wouldn't necessarily expect them to um because they've they've got to well they've got Jalen Clark on a two way he signed a two-year two-way deal last year and they're gonna want to convert him before the end of the season so that they they have his rights uh that he's a restricted for agent next offseason like what they did with Luca Garza so he likely gets converted Jalen Clark does to a standard contract unless you know something terrible happens early in the season but the plan is he plays in summer league he's probably a fringe rotation guy for them early next year that might be strong but I think they're going to try and find him minutes early in the season and he probably ends up on a standard contract so I'd be a little surprised if they signed a 15th player if they do that tells me that the dozer contract is partially guaranteed so if that gets passed along officially we'll we'll uh definitely talk about that on here because I think that's important there are only two point guards on this roster and so the you know whether it's a two-way deal like a day should next type guys and insurance policy for a third point guard um I guess last year they really only had two point guards as well because it was only McLaughlin and Conley until they acquired Monte Morris so they're clearly comfortable with the kill examiner Walker and aunt being the next guys up in terms of point guard duties um but all that to say it's a little bit weird that dozer gets one of those spots uh at least that's how it appears okay so resetting the roster right now the two rules at the guard spot have Mike Conley and uh Rob Dillingham as really the the point guards on this roster rookie Rob Dillingham and then Anthony Edwards in the kill examiner Walker I'd put in that same category that's four guys there on the wing you've got Jade McDaniel's you've got Joe Ingalls and then your next line is in some order Terence Shannon Jr the late first round pick this year Josh Minot who will talk a lot more about as the offense goes on or excuse me off CC goes on and then Leonard Miller who technically is a big but because of the way the wolves roster lays out he's probably more of a one of those swing forwards a three slash four like what Kyle Anderson and Joe Ingalls Kyle Anderson was and Joe Ingalls is I'm going to put Leonard Miller in the wing category and then last would be PJ Dozer is it a partial guarantees a full guarantee we don't know centers of course Rudy Kat Nas and then Luca Garza I will say I missed this a week ago and the team hasn't reported it and I don't know that I've seen local beat report this at all I saw there was an ESPN reporter who reported that Jesse Edwards who played center at West Virginia last year and spent four years before that Syracuse that he was signed to a two-way deal I'll spend more time on him once that's like confirmed confirmed but it's it's out there like I don't even think it was reported on like hoops rumors like it was very um I saw it somewhere and then I dug into it and there's only a couple of there was an ESPN reporter that it wasn't like one of the main I think it might have been a college reporter or something that put it out there right after the draft that they signed Jesse Edwards so more to come on Jesse Edwards but the short version is he's a center he's a big dude he's like 611 with a 7-2 wingspan really nice defender actually looks a little bit like Rudy go bear I watched just a little bit on him looks a little like Rudy go bear on the floor he's maybe a little bit more comfortable around the rim offensively and not obviously to the level of Rudy defensively but looks like he could be a rim running you know lob threat type big with great size and decent athleticism so more on Jesse Edwards we'll definitely talk more about him once we're sure whether or not and I guess if he's playing in summer league then we'll have a pretty good hint that he is on a two-way so we'll talk more about him later but if that's the case then you've got Jaylen Clark you've got Jesse Edwards a a guard a smaller guard and a center and they'd still have one two-way open odds are they leave that open through summer league they see if anybody wows them on the summer league roster which they have not announced yet and then we'll find out who gets that spot so sitting here right now 14 to 15 standard roster spots two or three two-way deals are apparently filled we don't know if the does your contract is a full guarantee or not we also don't know for sure about the Jesse Edwards two-way contract so we will revisit this next week or if anything gets reported before friday show and then um summer league starts in like a a weekish summer league training camp I think is late next week so we'll get a full summer league roster at some point next week and we'll dig into some of the notable names on that roster that's always fun to go through a recognizable names from the g league from past NBA seasons and also from college basketball so we'll do that next week too but tomorrow we'll dig into the roster a little bit more we'll talk more about uh which roles are replacing which roles we'll talk about some of the the synergy and b-ball index numbers that prove that the wolves off season I think has been successful for for what they were what was on the table for them to maybe do why I think the off season has gone well so far for minnesota so we'll do all that on friday show a big thank you for making lock that wolves your first listen every day of course this show is free and available everywhere that includes youtube as well as all of your favorite audio platforms wherever you like to listen to podcasts you can find lock that wolves can also watch on the lockdown sports minnesota app on both roku and amazon at fire tv and you can follow on x at lockdown t wolves and also at b beacon with two bees two e's ck en of course the lock that wolves podcast is part of the lockdown podcast network your local experts on all the biggest stories remember we'll be back uh tomorrow we'll be talking more roster and then next week we're still daily throughout the month of july so tons to come on free agency summer league and more once again i'm bed beacon this is the lock down wolves podcast and we'll catch you next time hey every dayers nba free agency is here and coverage doesn't stop with your team locked on nba will be here for you every day of the off season with quick hitting 30 minute recaps of all the news and rumors in the nba make locked on nba your second listen and stay caught up on the biggest off-season storylines and free agency signings every day available on youtube or wherever you get your podcasts part of the locked on podcast network your team every day
The Minnesota Timberwolves made their most consequential free agency move, signing veteran forward Joe Ingles to a one-year deal to back-fill the role vacated by Kyle Anderson.
