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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Minnesota Timberwolves have started their 30th season amid more drama and dysfunction, an all-too-familiar feeling.

Jimmy Butler, the four-time All-Star shooting guard whose heralded arrival from Chicago sparked a 16-win improvement and an end to a 13-year absence from the playoffs, told president of basketball operations and head coach Tom Thibodeau last week he wants to be traded and won't re-sign with the team.

Talk about bad timing, even by Timberwolves standards.

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