On draft night in 2024, the Minnesota Timberwolves traded two future picks to get a young point guard to back up, then succeed veteran Mike Conley. A year-and-a-half later, the Rob Dillingham experiment in Minneapolis is over.
Thursday, the Timberwolves sent Dillingham to the Chicago Bulls for guard Ayo Dosunmu, closing the book on a well-intentioned gamble that blew up on the Wolves spectacularly.
Rob Dillingham is a developmental prospect on a team that needs to win now
Dillingham played just one year at Kentucky, averaging 15.2 points and shooting 44.4 percent from three-point range. That scoring punch never translated on the NBA level, where Dillingham has scored only 4.0 points per game. His two-point shooting has been awful this season, dropping to 32.4 percent.
In the last six weeks, Dillingham has barely seen the floor. He’s played only 10 of the Timberwolves’ 24 games and logged just 61 minutes of court time. Bones Hyland has taken over as the backup point guard, and the Timberwolves traded Conley to the Bulls for nothing but salary relief.