{"id":514851,"date":"2026-09-11T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514851"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T06:51:10","slug":"tim-connelly-explains-timberwolves-vision-for-jonathan-kuminga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tim-connelly-explains-timberwolves-vision-for-jonathan-kuminga\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Connelly explains Timberwolves\u2019 vision for Jonathan Kuminga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1079\" data-end=\"1200\">Minnesota Timberwolves president Tim Connelly believes Jonathan Kuminga can make an impact on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1202\" data-end=\"1365\">\u201cHe\u2019s accomplished so much, he\u2019s only 23 years old, and his best basketball is well in front of him,\u201d Connelly said during Kuminga\u2019s introductory press conference.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1367\" data-end=\"1578\">Connelly particularly highlighted his potential partnership with LaMelo Ball: \u201cJonathan is as elite an athlete as it gets. He\u2019s one of our best cutters, while LaMelo is one of the best playmakers in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"1726\">Kuminga will also help replace Julius Randle and Naz Reid. \u201cHe can play up, he can play down,\u201d Connelly added. \u201cWe thought he\u2019d be a perfect fit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Timberwolves president Tim Connelly believes Jonathan Kuminga can make an impact on both ends of the floor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-514851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514851"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514851"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514851"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}