Most rumors will never leave the “rumor stage.”

This will almost certainly be one of them.

According to Michael Scotto of Basketball Insiders, the Los Angeles Clippers proposed a trade to the Minnesota Timberwolves surrounding Blake Griffin and Karl-Anthony Towns.

Here are some reactions from Zone Coverage writers on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/timfaklis/status/952031851044106240

https://twitter.com/Brandon_Warne/status/952030747841490945

https://twitter.com/loseehafer/status/952032005247651840

This is all said, of course, because Towns is 22 years old, on a rookie deal and is playing the best basketball of his career. Griffin, as good as he’s been, is riddled with injuries, and is six years older than Towns.

And, as Dane Moore mentions in his tweet above, it doesn’t make sense financially without adding more pieces on Minnesota’s side.

Don’t expect to see this rumor go any further.

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Tim Faklis

Tim Faklis is a senior editor and the Timberwolves beat writer for Zone Coverage, as well as an NBA contributor for Sporting News. He's written about basketball and music for A Wolf Among Wolves, VICE, City Pages, Fansided, Growler Mag, Hardwood Paroxysm, The Classical, and others. As it stands right now, he remains the world's biggest Trenton Hassell fan.

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