Ayo Dosunmu is averaging a career-best 15 points per game this season.
Deadline day arrived, and the first reported deal has gone official.
The Timberwolves are adding Ayo Dosunmu in a trade with the Bulls, while Rob Dillingham is headed to Chicago.
Minnesota receives:
- Ayo Dosunmu
- Julian Phillips
Chicago receives:
- Rob Dillingham
- Leonard Miller
- 2026 second-round pick (least favorable Denver or Golden State)
- 2027 second-round pick (via Cleveland)
- 2031 second-round pick (most favorable Minnesota or Golden State)
- 2032 second-round pick (most favorable Phoenix or Houston)
Welcome to Minnesota, Ayo 🐺 pic.twitter.com/jhxZwe72BX
— Minnesota Timberwolves (@Timberwolves) February 6, 2026
Welcome to Chicago, Rob Dillingham! pic.twitter.com/11qB9HFAam
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) February 6, 2026
The trade bolsters Minnesota’s backcourt as it pushes toward the playoffs. The Timberwolves are 32-20 and entered the day in fifth place in the West.
Dosunmu has improved his scoring totals each season in the NBA, and 2025-26 is no different. He’s posting 15 points, three rebounds and 3.6 assists per game in a reserve role for the Bulls.
In Minnesota, he’ll play alongside Wolves superstar Anthony Edwards and join a guard depth chart that includes Donte DiVincenzo, Jaylen Clark and Bones Hyland. Dosunmu will be a free agent this summer and has plenty of opportunity to prove his place in Minnesota.
The Wolves parted ways with veteran guard Mike Conley Jr. in a trade (he’s reportedly on his way to Charlotte in a separate deal) and moving on from Dillingham (the No. 8 overall pick in 2024) clears minutes as well.
Chicago has gone through a variety of changes leading up to the deadline, parting with (in official and reported deals), Kevin Huerter, Coby White, Mike Conley Jr. and Nikola Vučević in various trades. Conley was only with the team for a day before he was reportedly shipped to Charlotte with White.
Between trading those players, Chicago has lost four of its top seven scorers this season.
Dillingham is averaging 3.5 ppg, 1.2 rpg and 1.7 apg and has a team option for 2026-27 and 2027-28. Miller (2.3 ppg, 1.3 rpg) has a player option for next season.
Dillingham was the eighth pick out of Kentucky before last season, but the 21-year-old was slow to develop and had yet to earn the trust of the coaching staff as a true point guard the team has needed in light of Conley’s declining production. Dillingham is averaging 3.5 points, 1.7 assists and 9.3 minutes this season, appearing in 35 games.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
