BIGGEST NEEDS: The Wolves addressed their main needs when they acquired Kevin Love and Mike Miller, among others, in a draft-night trade.

FREE AGENT FOCUS: The Wolves might make a modest move if the right veteran comes along, but the Wolves' braintrust has structured its salary cap so the team can make a big splash in the market in 2009.

PLAYER NOTES:

--Kevin Love's relentless summer-league play impressed more than the scouts sitting courtside: USA Basketball selected him as one of three final players picked for a young select team that practiced and scrimmaged against the U.S. Olympic team in Las Vegas. Soreness in his Achilles' tendon hampered his participation.

Love, Jerryd Bayless and Robin Lopez joined O.J. Mayo, Derrick Rose, Rodney Stuckey, LaMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, Luther Head, Al Horford, Andre Iguodala and Kevin Martin on a 12-man team that completed four days of training against the Olympians on Thursday.

Love led the Las Vegas Summer League in rebounding with a 13.5 average, scored 18 points a game and displayed his freakish outlet passing skills in leading the Wolves team to a 2-3 record.

--Restricted free agent Craig Smith on July 18 signed a new two-year, $4.8 million contract with the Wolves. The 6-8 forward was a second-round pick in 2006. "I'm just happy that I'm back," Smith said from Las Vegas, where he joined the Wolves summer-league team and played in one game. "We're going to be much better than we were last year. I told Mac (vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale) and (General Manager) Jim Stack that I wanted to be here and I wanted to grow with the young nucleus. We went through a transition, and I wanted to stick it out through the tough times, and the times are going to get better."

--Second-year forward Corey Brewer's second time around in summer league didn't answer any questions about his shooting touch. Brewer averaged 9.8 points on 37 percent shooting in uneven performances that included a 19-point game and a one-point game.