"The Timberwolves' already svelte payroll grew slimmer still Monday night when the team traded guard Ramon Sessions, center Ryan Hollins and a 2013 second-round pick to Cleveland for the contracts of Delonte West and former Wolves guard Sebastian Telfair.

Shortly after the Wolves traded away one of their three point guards, Yahoo! Sports reported that Jonny Flynn --who started 81 of 82 games as a rookie last season -- will need surgery to repair a hip injury and will miss the next three to four months.

A Wolves spokesman said he couldn't confirm that Flynn will need surgery, but that timetable would cause him to miss training camp and perhaps the first month of the season.

Neither West nor Telfair likely will play for the Wolves. They almost certainly will buy West out of the remaining $4.6 million year left on his contract for $500,000 by an Aug. 5 deadline.

Telfair probably will be traded or bought out of the remaining $2.7 million owed for the final season of a three-year contract former Wolves boss Kevin McHale signed him to two years ago this month.

By making Monday's deal, Wolves boss David Kahn traded away two players he signed last summer to multiyear contracts. Last July, Kahn signed Hollins away from Dallas to a three-year, $7 million offer sheet that Mavericks owner Mark Cuban pondered for about two seconds before he decided not to match.

Little more than a month later, Kahn signed Sessions to a four-year, $16 million contract only hours after draft pick Ricky Rubio decided to stay in Spain for at least two more seasons.

Sessions, 24, played a career-low 21.1 minutes a game last season, when he backed up Flynn at point guard all year. He was one of only two Timberwolves who played in every game.

He became expendable when the Wolves signed veteran point guard Luke Ridnour to a four-year, $16 million contract last week, a deal almost identical to the one Sessions signed last September."