Timberwolves: KAT reacts to stunning firing of GM Rosas

In the NBA, keeping your stars apprised of big moves seems like the least a team can do, but it looks like the Minnesota Timberwolves violated that cardinal rule on Wednesday.

According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the Timberwolves fired general manager Gersson Rosas, and it sounds like that’s the first that All-Star big man Karl-Anthony Towns heard of it.

The Minnesota Timberwolves may have made a critical mistake by not keeping Karl-Anthony Towns in the loop before firing their GM Gersson Rosas.

It’s only appropriate that if Towns learned about it on Twitter, he should express his astonishment on that same platform:

For a team in flux after being sold to an ownership group including Alex Rodriguez, this level of instability seems entirely avoidable and unnecessary. It’s a degree of chaos and disorganization that boggles the mind, coming so close to the start of training camp in a week.

Was it too hard or inconvenient for somebody on the org chart in Minnesota to keep Towns in the loop? If it was an oversight, it was an utterly unjustifiable one that just boggles the mind. Communicating with your star is simply de rigueur and a failure to do so may have consequences for the organization down the road, or even in the very near future.

Towns wouldn’t be the first young superstar to lose all faith in his team over an avoidable blunder like this. He wouldn’t even be the first star to want a trade when he believes his situation is untenable with an organization he no longer trusts.

If today’s events aren’t bizarre enough, Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer reported that the incoming Timberwolves ownership group is enamored with Philadelphia 76ers general manager Elton Brand.

Best known for paying Tobias Harris and Al Horford over a quarter of a billion dollars in the same offseason, Brand hasn’t earned that kind of attention from any NBA team. Should this report be true, it’s just another indication that the Minnesota Timberwolves are an unserious organization and should be treated as such.