MINNEAPOLIS — In early July the Timberwolves, ignoring Minnesota PTSD (Player Trades Spurring Depression), traded five players and four first-round draft picks to Utah for star center Rudy Gobert.
For those who remember the Vikings' trade for Herschel Walker, Gobert looks like a 7-foot-1 risk.
In 1989, Vikings general manager Mike Lynn, looking for the one player who would elevate his team to a Super Bowl, traded five players and eight draft picks to Dallas for Walker and four future, low-level draft picks. That would become the most infamous and lamented trade in Minnesota history, a national punchline, and the ghost that would immediately haunt the Wolves' large gamble.
