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Season snapshot
Strong regular season results · competitive results younger coreMIN finished 49-33 (0.598) with 12 playoff game(s). Its governed core had 10 players and a rotation-weighted age of 28.4. The team had 0 critical/structural basketball problem(s), 0 future pick-control row(s), and 20.0% future core salary schedule coverage. This describes the planning position; it does not recommend a direction.
Record
49-33
Playoff games
12
Playoff wins
6
Core age
28.4
Primary creator
Anthony Edwards
Current decision lanes
Transactions, injuries, rumors and staff changes are separate evidence lanes — never merged.14transactions1injuries0rumors0staff changes
TransactionEnrique Freemantwo way signingJul 2, 2026Completed
Re-signed to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
TransactionTrey Lylesfree agent signingJul 11, 2026Completed
Officially announced. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
Transaction
Injuries & availability
Governed medical episodes — evidence about players, separate from team decisions.| Player | Injury | Body part | Out | Returned | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bones Hyland | right knee contusion | knee | Dec 13, 2025 → Dec 14, 2025 | Dec 14, 2025 | — |
| Mike Conley | right achilles tendinopathy | achilles | Dec 11, 2025 → Dec 21, 2025 | Dec 21, 2025 | — |
| Enrique Freeman | face | face | Dec 8, 2025 → Dec 8, 2025 |
Last observed season rotation
Players with actual NBA minutes for the latest eligible season; not a complete current registration ledger.| Player | Role | Strongest functions | Minutes | On/Off | Stab. RAPM | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Julius Randle | — | — | 2,986 | — | — | metrics unavailable |
 Rudy Gobert | — | — | 2,729 | — | — |
On/Off and stabilized RAPM are separate impact lanes on a per-100 scale — never combined into one grade. A dash means evidence is unavailable, not zero.
21 of 21 — complete
Basketball functions
Eleven separate function readings — need, coverage and redundancy stay apart; no team score.CreationMonitor Not Priority
Middle Tier Distributed · led by Julius Randle, then Anthony Edwards
Full reading
MIN 2025-26 Creation: production percentile 58.3; largest contributor Julius Randle (33.7% of above-replacement production); monitor_not_priority.
Defensive event creationMonitor Not Priority
Middle Tier Distributed · led by Jaylen Clark, then Donte DiVincenzo
Full reading
Shot creation
Team performance and shot-creation architecture.MIN ranked 3 of 30 in self-created shot share (51.3%), 8 of 30 in self-created eFG, and 6 of 30 in assisted eFG. Primary creator: Anthony Edwards. Team-level creator attribution: 91.1%. Creation profile: self creation heavy; dependency: tilted to lead creators; shotmaking: two mode elite.
Self-created FGA share
51.3%
Self-created eFG
50.9%
Assisted eFG
60.7%
Anthony Edwards share
26.1%
Contracts & cap
Selected player charges under the serving definition — not full cap legality.SupportedFirst Apron Restricted Threshold State
Selected player charges
$196.8M
Share of cap
127%
Tax line
$8.88M over
First apron
$825K over
Second apron
$11.1M under
MIN 2025-26 carried $196,770,474 of selected player charges (127.2% of the cap), placing it in first to second apron on selected player charges. Its highest contracted function cost was interior_finish at 23.5% of the cap; highest measured need was passing. Exact exception and transaction legality is withheld without team cap-hold and exception-use ledgers.
Future core salary schedule
Upcoming decisions
Governed contract events ahead — dates carry their honest quality.Julius Randleplayer option decisionJun 29, 2027reported $35.8M
Julius Randle has a reported player option for the 2028 season at a reported $35,802,468. Player controls the option. The stored date is the CBA outside date; the contract may require an earlier decision.
Rudy Gobertplayer option decisionJun 29, 2027reported $38
Rudy Gobert has a reported player option for the 2028 season at a reported $38. Player controls the option. The stored date is the CBA outside date; the contract may require an earlier decision.
Donte DiVincenzocontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Donte DiVincenzo has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Julius Randlecontract control horizonJun 30, 2028
Julius Randle has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2028 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Future assets
Draft-control coverage: abstain no future pick control rows. Partial coverage renders as partial — never as a zero-asset team.No accepted future asset-control rows are governed for this team yet. Asset-control coverage is known to be partial league-wide — this is missing evidence, not an empty cupboard.
Organization
Basketball authority and staff context — descriptive, never a grade.No governed authority-regime rows are knowable for this team at this as-of moment.
CoverageResolved
withheld: falseresolved team: true
Supporting relations (7)
- gb_state.frontend_team_season_overview_v
- gb_state.team_functional_coverage_v
- gb_state.frontend_team_roster_card_v
- gb_state.team_asset_control_timeline_v
- gb_state.team_roster_decision_calendar_event_v
- gb_organization.role_tenure_assertion
- gb_state.nba_team_decision_feed_at
