Cleveland officially, finally signed No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins to a rookie contract that will pay him about $5.5 million this coming season.

Tick … tick … tick.

That's the clock counting down on the next 30 days, the time both the Cavs and the Timberwolves must wait before Wiggins can be traded.

The Wolves need to wait though that period because they need Wiggins' $5.5 million salary to make any Kevin Love trade work under the NBA's salary-cap rules.

Until Thursday, Wiggins held no value in a trade of a salaries. Now, you can put his salary with 2013 No. 1 overall pick Anthony Bennett's similar salary, add one, two or all three of those non-guaranteed contracts the Cavs acquired from Utah the other day and … now you're talking deal.

I doubt such a deal will be reached until near the end of those 30 days because nothing's binding until then. If the Wolves agreed now, they'd be taking teams like Chicago and Golden State out of the picture.

On the Wolves: startribune.com/wolves