
The ninth song on Sonic Youth's 1994 release "Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star" is a spacey, spare track called "Quest for the Cup." Kim Gordon does the vocals, and at the end there's a short spoken word part that pops into my head more often than a relatively obscure passage from a quarter-century old song should.
"All your dreams will come true/ All my dreams came true/ But now, I have a bunch of other dreams."
The underlying message, as least as I choose to interpret it, is that we tend to fixate on one thing that will make us happy forever, but once we get that thing it is never the endpoint. It's just a base from which we fixate on the next thing in our adjusted reality.
So of course that song had to jump into my head Thursday, just a few minutes after the Timberwolves completed a trade that sent Andrew Wiggins, their 2021 first-round pick (top-3 protected) and 2021 second-round pick to Golden State for D'Angelo Russell.
(And yes, it would be so much better if I could tie "Quest for the Cup" into a post about the Wild instead, or if we could at least rename it "Quest for the Larry O'Brien Trophy.")
For a lot of Wolves fans, two dreams emerged from the wreckage of the Jimmy Butler era and the start of the Gersson Rosas era as President: Find a way, any way, to get out from underneath Wiggins' max contract; and find a way, any way, to get Russell onto the team.
It seemed like each deal independently would require the sending out of significant compensation in the form of draft picks, while at least the Wiggins deal would also require taking back a bad contract. So to do both things in the same trade and give up only one first-round pick total without taking back a bad contract in the process, makes this a dream trade.
But now that all your dreams came true, dear Wolves fan, you immediately have a bunch of other dreams.