Kuminga Fills the Spot. He Doesn't Fix the Problem.

Jonathan Kuminga signed a two-year deal with Minnesota on Tuesday, and the timing is straightforward enough: DiVincenzo is still out, camp is opening, and the Timberwolves needed a wing who could actually play. Kuminga, who came over from Atlanta after his time in Golden State, is young and athletic and gives Connelly something real to work with at a position that had gotten thin.

The DiVincenzo situation hasn't changed, though. No diagnosis on record, no timetable — same as it was when I wrote about this six days ago. Kuminga's arrival doesn't resolve that; it just means the Wolves aren't walking into camp with Bones Hyland as the primary fallback on the wing. That's an improvement. It's not a solution.

What Connelly is building here — Ball running the offense, Edwards as the engine, McDaniels and Dosunmu spacing the floor — requires the wing rotation to hold up. Kuminga can contribute to that. But DiVincenzo averaged nearly 12 points and close to four assists last season, and that production doesn't get replaced by a depth signing at roughly $12.4 million over two years. It gets covered, temporarily, and hoped for.

The question heading into camp is still the same one it's been all summer: when does DiVincenzo come back, and in what shape. Kuminga buys time. The clock is still running.