Terrence Shannon Jr Rose from the Dead to Bury Denver

The line that showed up on paper

Forty-three games, 12.5 minutes a night, 5.6 points. On a per-game basis, Terrence Shannon Jr.'s second season in Minnesota reads like a bench guy who never quite found a foothold. He started twice. He shot 45.0 percent from the floor and a career-best 40.8 percent from three, but on so few attempts a night that the efficiency barely registered outside his own locker.

That's the season the box score remembers. It isn't the season that moved the market.

Games

43

Minutes

12.5

Points

5.6

Rebounds

1.1

Assists

0.9

3PM

0.7

FG%

45.0

3P%

40.8

FT%

80.0

TS%

59.7

PER

11.1

Two foot injuries and a crowded backcourt

Shannon never really had a runway. Minnesota brought back Julius Randle and Naz Reid over the summer and let Nickeil Alexander-Walker walk to Atlanta, which was supposed to open a lane for Shannon as the first guard off the bench. Instead, two separate left-foot injuries, including an abductor hallucis strain, cost him close to two and a half months of the season. When he did play, it was mostly in short, choppy stretches behind Anthony Edwards, Ayo Dosunmu, and Jaden McDaniels.

He got occasional spot starts when the rotation thinned out, including one against Detroit while Edwards and Dosunmu were both out. He set a new career high late in the year off the bench, his seventh double-digit scoring game of the season, in a game Minnesota otherwise lost. None of it was consistent enough to call a role.

What the playoffs looked like instead

Then Minnesota's roster got hit by injuries in the postseason, and Shannon got real minutes for the first time all year. Over nine playoff games he averaged 11.8 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 22.6 minutes, nearly double his regular-season workload. The high point came in the first round, when he scored 24 points to help close out the Denver Nuggets. Minnesota advanced to face San Antonio in the second round, with Shannon starting three of the nine playoff games he appeared in.

Head coach Chris Finch said afterward that it took the staff too long to realize Shannon plays better with the ball in his own hands rather than standing in the corner waiting for one.

Nine playoff games told you more about this guy than forty-three regular season ones did. Shannon spent the year buried behind three other guards, then closed out a playoff series with the ball in his hands. That's not a role player's line. That's a guy Minnesota has to figure out how to use.

What the market saw

The chart at the top of this page is the same one on his market page, so you can line the price up against his season. The flat, grinding stretch through the winter is the 12.5 minutes a night and the foot injuries. The climb starts in the spring, once the playoff minutes showed up, and it hasn't really stopped since. Trade chatter tied to Minnesota's roster crunch, including his name coming up in hypothetical Giannis Antetokounmpo conversations, and offseason talk about handing him a bigger role next to Edwards and LaMelo Ball have kept the price moving well after the season ended.

What it means for the market

For Hardwood Index readers, Shannon is a bet on a role that hasn't been defined yet. The per-game numbers from the 2025-26 regular season don't support a $21 price on their own. What supports it is the sample size problem: a 26-year-old wing who has never had more than 22.6 minutes a night to work with, who scored 24 points in a playoff closeout game, and who Minnesota's own coaching staff has admitted they've been underusing. That's a market pricing in what happens once he actually gets the runway, not what he's done with 12 minutes a game. If Minnesota's crowded roster keeps him buried again next season, or if he gets dealt into a smaller market with a bigger role, that price has real room to move in either direction.