Boom again and now he’s with the Wolves. It’s a franchise he studied coming out of Villanova, a team he considered while a free agent. The trade of Towns means Finch is tasked with building cohesion into his altered core, but his bench is longer with a starting-caliber player in DiVincenzo.
It’s possible DiVincenzo would have grown into the all-around player he is today if he had remained with one organization. But he sounded grateful for having a little bit of an NBA walkabout.
“I think it’s the reason why I’m here today,” he said. “In that situation, if you are staying with a team you are developing within that organization, within that system, whatever that role is. Every team I’ve went to I’ve had a different role. And every team I’ve gone to, I’ve expanded that role. For me, it’s just to continue to work behind closed doors and whatever that role is or whatever that opportunity presents itself to take full advantage of it.”
DiVincenzo sees another available step in his development: going further in a title chase. The Wolves want to take that step, too. Seems like each can help the other.
“I went from a team that was one game away from the Eastern Conference finals to a team that was one or two games away from being in the Finals,” he said. “I don’t think it gets any better than that.”
