Wolves acquire Atlanta's Adreian Payne, trade Mo Williams to Charlotte

The Wolves are getting even busier:

They've now have agreed to trade a future first-round pick to Atlanta for rookie power forward Adreian Payne, a league sources says.

The first-round pick can't be any earlier than 2016 or 2017 because they're already committed to trading a future first to Boston.

That Payne trade follows Wolves a deal in which they're trading Mo Williams and Troy Daniels to Charlotte for Gary Neal and a 2019 second-round pick.

In essence, the trade is Williams for a second-round pick, which is pretty much his value for a guy with a $3.7 million contract that expires after this season.

Neal has an expiring $3,25 million contract as well and makes the money work in the deal and the Wolves probably asked the Hornets to take Daniels' minimal contract for this season and next as well.

The draft pick is Miami's in 2019.

Mo said yesterday that he was thinking about the upcoming trade deadline "every day" and he said that every day he woke up without a call, he was still a Timberwolf.

Presumably that call comes today.

In a statement, Flip Saunders called the trade "a difficult decision because of what Mo brought to our team and the impact he had on our young guys. As a coach, you wanted to keep him because of his professionaism and understanding of what you wanted out of him as a player. He scored 52 points against Indiana and did everything we asked him to do. On the other side, we knew were moving in a different direction with our youth so we felt it was in our best interest to make the deal."

The 2-for-1 deal gives the Wolves a roster spot they could use for a free-agent signing or trade.

The trade come nine days before the Feb. 19 trade deadline.