Wolves hope to buy out Hudson
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Can you imagine a team being so fed up, so disappointed in a player, so determined to give floor time to anyone else, that they would offer to buy out the remainder of his contract? It might seem a bit more common than I'm making out, but that's exactly what the Minnesota Timberwolves and the agent for PG Troy Hudson are working out as I write this.
Signed for at least the next three years, as well as an option year remaining, the potential parting may not be amicable, exactly, but it is what both sides want. The Timberwolves, overloaded with bad long-term contracts, want to put a tonneau cover over the team's problems by getting rid of the oft-injured, rarely-consistent Hudson.
Hudson and his agent are willing to part ways because they recognize the backlog at the guard positions; the only sticking point is how much or how little the Timberwolves are willing to pay Hudson to make him a free agent.
Hudson's side is expecting a big payday, only willing to accept an extremely high percentage of his remaining pay - demanding possibly as much as $17.5M of his $19M+ contract. The Wolves are thinking that since Hudson will be a free agent with a chance of signing on somewhere else, they'd like to pay less; considerably less. Like in the $10M range at most.
It's unclear at this point if buying out Hudson's contract would free up and cap room, and when. One thing that's clear is that Hudson's departure will, at the minimum, clear off a roster space that can be filled by a big man.
